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Building Platform with Bylined Articles
Recently I reminded myself of how I began my career. I wanted to be a writer. I did not want to be an editor. In fact, I wanted to write fiction. (Imagine that.) Some of you may have heard me tell the...
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The Value of a Guest Blog Post
Guest blog posts offer writers and bloggers an invaluable tool. However, the opportunity to write for other blog sites shouldn’t be overlooked as only a book launch activity, as in a “blog tour” or a...
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Do What it Takes to Finish Your Book
Today’s guest blog post is from my colleague Judy Cullins, author of LinkedIn Marketing: 8 Best Tactics to Build Book and Business Sales. Do you say or think any of these comments about writing your...
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What I Know For Sure About Passion and Publishing
I get asked a lot of questions about how to get published. I offer a lot of answers in response–lots of advice on what to do and what not to do. I can’t, however, guarantee that anyone who follows my...
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PR for Authors Part 3: How to Contact Internet Media Sources
Today’s guest blog post is the third part of a three-part series by Stephanie Chandler, author of Own Your Niche and Booked Up! Read part 1 here and part 2 here. In the first two posts in this series,...
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Your Bestseller: Tips for Picking a Book Topic That Sells
My guest post today is written by Jamie Cawley, author of The Self Publishers Guide to Book Marketing. A major challenge we face as non-fiction authors is choosing a book topic that will sell....
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Writing Prompt: Describe a Dancer and Dance Style from Hollywood’s Golden Age
Celebrity Quotes Friday Last week’s writing prompt offered many choices of celebrity quotes. This week, we focus on one celebrity only. In today’s prompt, we go back in time to an era of old-fashioned...
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Why I Am Blogging My Next Book Here on This Blog
If you haven’t noticed, I’m blogging bits of my next book, The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, 2014), here on this blog. Now, why would I do that? And why would my publisher want me to...
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Writing Prompt: Write about Five Variations of a Chicken and Rice Dish
This post is part of the “I Know I Can” WNFIN 10-Month Training. Today is a great day to talk about the Mississippi mud cake, or do I mean the Mississippi mud pie or perhaps I should call it the Muddy...
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Writing Prompt: Express Emotions About Alicia Keys’ Fallin’
This post is part of the “I Know I Can” WNFIN 10-Month Training. As we wrap up our first week of piano interpretation, I’m pleased to end on a high note and give a glimpse into next week. Today’s...
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