Wednesday’s promoting tip for authors
If you have questions about planning and writing a nonfiction book to build your personal brand and driving business success, here are 11 detailed articles to help you make the right book marketing and promoting decisions.
Visit my Author’s Journey series page on the Active Garage blog. Under the Promoting subhead, [...]
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The 10 Awful Truths about Book Publishing - and What To Do About Them
Friday’s upcoming events for authors
Published & Profitable friends and members are invited to a special teleseminar discussion of The Ten Awful Truths about Book Publishing–And What To Do About Them on Thursday, July 15, when I interview Stefanie Guzikowski.
Stefanie was a speaker at a recent authors’ conference in Washington, DC, hosted by industry leader Berrett-Kohler. [...]
Tips for choosing the right title for your book
3 lessons in choosing the right nonfiction book title from Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing To Our Brains plus link to the first book about book titles.
Guest post: Seth Godin’s Advice for Authors
Almost five years have gone by since Advice for Authors, by Seth Godin, appeared. Like many of his blog posts, it’s too good to remain hidden in his archives, so I asked–and he gave–for permission to reprint it. I thought of it while reading his latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Seth always says a lot [...]
Are you ready for maximum March progress? Step 1: Planning your book
Monday’s writing tip for authors
February’s transition into March provides you with an opportunity to take a fresh look at the planning progress you’ve made so far this year writing a book, and commit to specific planning tasks you want to accomplish during March.
Specificity is the key to March success
The easiest way you can make the [...]
Literary Guide editor shares formula for writing a 3-paragraph query letter
In exploring the various Writer’s Digest blogs, after completing yesterday’s post about Brian Klems’ discussion of ways to locate the names of literary agents who have represented books in your field, I discovered another extremely useful Writer’s Digest blog response to a reader’s question
In a recent post entitled Breaking Down the Query Letter on his [...]





