Welcome to this week’s Author Marketing Experts’ Blog Carnival. We have some great insights into book marketing, writing, and getting published in this edition. Thank you to this week’s contributors! Writing Chrys Fey submitted Writing About: Your Toughest Moment...
Don’t panic! Celebrate! Some people wait years to get an agent to actually request to read their materials, whether it be a manuscript or a book proposal. I should know, I’ve helped over a hundred clients get to that first step, and I know exactly how you...
“How come Daddy? How come?” That’s probably a three-year-old’s favorite question and it forces the parent in the crutch of a busy day to stop what he is doing and think for a second. “Hmmm … Yeah, why is that dogs bark and cats...
Agents are so busy nowadays they won’t even give a query letter an entire paragraph to grab them. If you’ve passed the first test, what I like to call the scan test (meaning it looks professional at first glance), then you’ll be lucky to go on to the...
Have you ever walked down a street and had someone shove a flier at you or a perfume girl at Macy’s spray some God-awful cologne in your face as you’re just trying to walk by? Why do we hate it so much? Not just because they’re trying to sell us...