Archive for January, 2007
Next Entries »Hire a Copy Editor by Dan Poynter
Monday, January 1st, 2007The copy edit is clean up work. Once the manuscript is complete you become more concerned with punctuation, grammar and style. Now is the time to make your information more readable.
There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.
—William Targ, bookseller, collector, editor and publisher.
There is nothing wrong with unpolished writing, but there […]
Pitching Tips For Your 8-Second Power Pitch Hooking for a Booking by Raleigh Pinskey
Monday, January 1st, 2007“If your pitch is longer than 8 seconds, don’t bother calling. If you’re emailing, it better be less than 25 words cause I won’t read it.” This is the consensus of most media.
That’s were the hook comes in. secret lies not in what you want from them, but rather in what benefits can you provide […]
Survive Transition & Icky Neutral Zones by Christina Merkley
Monday, January 1st, 2007Sick of what you are doing? Ready to leave your old world but not sure what your new world is? In that painful in-between place? Ahhhhhh transitions. The tricky challenge of moving from one world or way of being into another. When life kicks us out of our comfort zone so we can become our […]
The Write and Wrong Way to Promote Your Book by Penny Sansevieri
Monday, January 1st, 2007Did you know that if you’re marketing your book to sell books, you may be marketing for all the wrong reasons? Why? Well frankly, marketing a book to make sales will rarely ring the cash register; in fact, most of the time it amounts to what I call the “anti-sale,” the sale that always seems […]
