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So, you’re ready to publish your book: congratulations! The most important question now is when you should do it; whether you’re chasing the holiday-reading market of summer, the gift-giving readers of winter, or an audience somewhere in-between. I’m not going to beat around the bush here: with only a couple of exceptions (such as when a blockbuster author in the same genre is about to publish …
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When you see the words ‘reader trust’, it’s pretty obvious what they mean. When a reader approaches a new work they have no way to know that they’ll enjoy it. In fact, they have no way to know that it’s something they won’t find boring, offensive, or even distressing. Part of consuming art is taking the chance and finding out, but part of becoming an author is building up a cache of trust that …
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An elevator pitch is a quick, punchy set of statements that you can use to sell your book to a publisher, agent, or reader. The idea is that, if the person you’re trying to sell to got into an elevator with you, you’d be able to deliver your pitch before they reached their destination. Of course, that’s pretty unlikely, and the real idea is to use artificial pressure to identify the key selling …
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People give up and put books down for any number of reasons, but if we understand the most common causes, we can intercept them during the writing process. As writers expend all their energy actually writing the book and expend all their sleep freaking out about publication routes, it’s easy to lose sight of this one pressing question: are people going to want to read this book all the way to the …
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Do you hate your own writing? It’s more common than you think. From those authors who read back a whole project and despise it to those who cringe at a few choice phrases, hating your own work is definitely normal. But what’s the next step? Does disliking a piece mean you should change it, is it something you can work to move past as an author, or is it something you can never quite escape? The …
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For every author who dreams of producing a bestseller that tops the charts for one amazing moment, there’s the writer who wants a book that sells reasonably well for a long, long time. Ah, the evergreen book, that rarest of things: some are literary classics (Nabokov’s Lolita, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice), others are timeless children’s stories (think the Brothers …
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