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Learning to Love Passive Construction

Published on November 11, 2010 By Nina Amir

When I contacted Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the How To Do It Frugally series, to contribute to WNFIN again this year, I expected a post on marketing. I know her for her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won’t. Instead she sent me a post on editing. When I asked [...]

Editing IS Marketing: Boning Up on First Impressions

Published on November 13, 2009 By ninaamir

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 [...]

It’s November 1: Let the Business of Nonfiction Writing Begin!

Published on November 1, 2009 By ninaamir

Are your hands posed over the keyboard ready to begin? Are you waiting, as if for the gun to go off so you can start writing your book, e-book, article, essay, query letter, proposal, or whatever work of nonfiction you’ve chosen to create during the Write Nonfiction in November (WNFiN) 2009 challenge? No need to [...]