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All Quiet on the WNFIN Front…Not Really

Published on May 3, 2010 By ninaamir

If you’ve been wondering why it’s been so quiet here, let me explain. I’m getting ready for a change…and I thought it would happen a while ago…but it’s taking longer than expected. Earlier this month I thought this blog would be changing from a free WordPress blog to a hosted blog. That is still going [...]

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 [...]

10 Ways to Build Your Author Platform Online

Published on November 7, 2009 By ninaamir

As mentioned in yesterdays WNFiN post, when a publisher or acquisition editor examines a prospective author’s nonfiction book proposal, he or she will look long and hard at a number of things that have little to do with that writer’s writing. In particular, purchase of a manuscript depends to a great extent upon a proposal [...]