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Classes and Workshops to Help You Write Your Book and Get it Published

Posted by on February 16, 2010 at 6:44 pm

I just returned from speaking and working as a “book doctor” at the San Francisco Writers Conference. I’ve attended or worked as a volunteer at this particular conference for six years! This was my first year as a presenter. If I could pass along just one bit of information I heard stressed over and over [...]

Making the Perfect Nonfiction Pitch

Posted by on November 14, 2009 at 2:00 am

Let’s backtrack for a day to the all-important topic of  pitches and query letters. I just received an expert blog post from agent Katharine Sands, editor of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye, a collection of pitching wisdom from leading literary agents, and this one makes it well worth revisiting [...]

Editing IS Marketing: Boning Up on First Impressions

Posted by on November 13, 2009 at 2:00 am

Since we are on the topic of editing (see yesterday’s post), I thought we should follow that line of thinking into another area: marketing. This gives us another way to look at what we do when we edit our work or have professional editors help us polish our writing. To do this, I’ve asked Carolyn [...]