This from Lynn Viehl (by way of Nathan Bransford). She’s sharing her royalty statement. How cool is that? This is fascinating stuff. She’s so right about no one sharing this information. Sales figures are guarded as if the security of the nation depended upon their remaining secret. The blogging agents have said their slush piles have [...]
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Stats From A Best Seller
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
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Two Free E-books Every Writer Should Have
November 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Two of my favorite author/agents are offering free e-books. First, Noah Lukeman is offering How to Write a Great Query Letter, and Amazon short. And then we have Donald Maass, giving away The Career Novelist. I already have The Career Novelist, but I downloaded it, too. I love having an electronic, searchable version on hand. [...]
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Writing for the Commercial Market
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments
This is not new—this advice I give you. None of this stuff is new. Someone else said it somewhere and I glommed onto it and filed it away as useful. Study the markets. We’ve all heard it. If you want to write for a magazine, then get several back issues and study the style and [...]
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Writing for Publication
October 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Everyone’s a Writer When I tell women, specifically women with children, that I write for children, I often get a knowing look. They nod and tell me that they, also, have written children’s books. They wrote stories for their own small children, once upon a time. What happened to the stories, I always want to [...]
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