When your book isn’t selling…what’s an author to do?
There’s the exhilaration when your agent sells your book. Suddenly, you are real! You are going to be a published author. The contract comes. Now it is truly official. The manuscript is delivered, edited and accepted. Yes! You send in answers to an exhaustive questionnaire listing every contact you have. If you are one of […]
When Your Book Hits the Shelves
by Anne Greenwood Brown The experience of writing a book can be life changing, or at least personality changing. Even if you say, I’m just writing for myself, you’ll never be the same. Writing will allow you to explore fears you would never tell your therapist, say things that would get most people slapped, and […]
Why Do Good Books Fail?
SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE THE BLAME–OR DO THEY? This morning, my twitter account featured a couple of posts from a well-known book publicist who bemoaned the fact that publicists are always blamed when a book doesn’t take off. She’s not alone. Editors and agents are also frequently fingered. Indeed, sometimes the entire publishing team that […]
BUILD A PLATFORM–AND THEY WILL COME…
“If you build it, they will come…” That proves to be true about a baseball diamond carved out of a cornfield in Iowa in William Kinsella’s novel, SHOELESS JOE, which became FIELD OF DREAMS, the film. And it is equally true for authors about creating and sustaining a platform. The word “platform” began rearing its head […]