14th February 2012
Anyone can simply begin blogging. Blogging a book, however, that's a different story. If you want to blog a book, approach the endeavor like you would any other book project you might undertake, but add in a few steps unique to blogging.
Here's a lis...
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14th December 2011
More often than not, writers and bloggers have an abundance of ideas. They may get writer's block when it comes to actually producing a book, however, because they see writing and publishing a 150-250 page book as a big project. In fact, this stops many a...
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15th March 2011
I've looked at two book proposals recently for aspiring authors with agents eagerly awaiting their submissions. The writers came to me for what they considered a "cursory review" because they felt their proposals just needed a "finishing touch," another s...
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28th February 2011
Authors constantly ask me what they can blog about. They have a book-fiction or non-fiction-and they want to know how to use their blog to promote it. However, they have to keep blogging on a daily or weekly basis. They need content regularly, and they do...
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17th November 2010
I'm a big proponent of using blogging as a way to build platform for nonfiction authors. I speak about this quite often to my clients, many of whom come to me with book proposals that have empty platform sections. When I speak before groups, in particular...
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15th November 2010
When you know you have a deadline to meet--a real or a self-imposed one, it's important to find ways to move through writer's block and the desire to edit as you compose and write a first draft quickly.
As a journalist, I often find myself under the pr...
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03rd June 2010
On Monday we celebrate Memorial Day. This holiday started off as a somber day of remembrance, a day where we in America went to cemeteries and placed flags or flowers on the graves of those who died in battle or in some way during the course of war. We re...
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03rd June 2010
In the past few months, the publishing world has seen an increase in the number of books hit the market that began on the internet as blogs. Yes, bloggers have turned into authors.
With the recent flurry of blogs turned into books, aspiring writers mig...
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12th May 2010
If you think that only an aspiring author seeking a traditional publishing contract needs a pitch, think again. Every aspiring nonfiction author should take the time to craft a 25-word pitch--even those thinking of independently publishing their books.
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28th April 2010
As it gets harder and harder for aspiring authors to get their books picked up by traditional publishing houses, more and more bloggers are finding publishers simply coming to them with contracts in hand. If you keep up with books at all, you know that ag...
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07th January 2010
We've seen climate weather, world economic changes and political and government leadership changes. In spiritual, mystical and metaphysical circles, everyone is talking about and predicting change, the biggest of which is, of course, the fact that the May...
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25th November 2009
Next week much of North America will celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving. Most people believe this tradition came from the first Thanksgiving celebration held in 1621 in Plymouth, MA, by the pilgrims for a successful bounty of crops, but the history of ...
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22nd September 2009
On the Hebrew calendar date of the 15th of Tishri, just five days after the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (Day of Repentance) ends, the lesser-known holiday of Sukkot begins. Unlike the solemn and serious holiday that preceded it, Sukkot is a joyous holid...
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22nd September 2009
Despite what many people think, the theme that runs through the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the New Year and Day of Repentance, has less to do with the concept of "sin" as we typically think about it and more to do with goal set...
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