Be careful what you wish for?
So, I came across this piece in Buzzfeed about the dark side of being a debut author and, man, did it depress me. Not just me, either. Sharon tells me she found it to be a total downer, too....
View ArticleClik here to view.
#Persistence
I spent my summer vacation this year in Michigan celebrating my sister’s wedding, and I got to hear a lot of behind-the-scenes stories of how she and her fiancé met and fell in love. They’ve known each...
View ArticleBlog ’bout blurbs
It seems that most book covers nowadays sport a blurb or two from well-known authors, but do you know who the first authors were to introduce the world to the blurb? I didn’t think so. It was Ralph...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“So, uh…what do you do, anyway?”
Thanksgiving is coming up, which means (for many of us), the inevitable Questioning by Relatives and/or Friends begins. This also means that I have started preparing my Working at a Literary Agency 101...
View ArticleThe book proposal
I know, I know, I have blogged before about doing a book proposal and how important it is. But, it seems from what I am seeing recently that I am not getting through. In the last couple of months, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One Book, Two Book, Red Book, Blue Book
Long weekends like the one we just had are the perfect time to take a break from queries and client manuscripts and catch up on some regular ol’ published books, so I churned through a few recent...
View ArticleWill books survive if Barnes & Noble doesn’t?
There is no shortage of articles that have been written over the last few years (and beyond) about the death of publishing. There’s little doubt that the industry has changed dramatically since I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tolerably well, tolerably often
Mari Andrew’s Iceberg of Creative Success I came across this infographic from the talented Mari Andrew on social media, and although her iceberg is not explicitly aimed at authors, it works pretty well...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sublicenses, the Matryoshka of Publishing
One of my favorite podcasts is Stuff You Should Know, from the people at How Stuff Works. Each episode hosts Josh and Chuck give a primer on a different subject, on topics as varied as Jim Henson,...
View Article
