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Preparing to Pitch Your Book at Conference
Not knowing how to pitch your book at conference can cost you a book contract or agent representation. Be prepared with these tips. by Margaret Daley One of the most important reasons to go to a conference is to pitch to an editor and/or agent. Many CBA publishers do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. This is…
The Book That Wasn’t Suppose to Be…Is
Digging Up Death, the book my agent signed me with four or so years ago, which he shopped around, but couldn’t sell to the CBA, the story I labored over for several years, and had to bury, then resurrect and rewrite, only to bury it again has been resurrected and given new life…and a beautiful…
Internet Killed the Radio Host
by Nicole O’Dell Have you ever wondered what it would be like to host a radio show? When I first started Teen Talk Radio two years ago, I was nervous that I’d be a flop on the air, I’d run out of material, or that people would see it…
3 Must Haves for Ebook Authors
There’s no denying it. More and more ebooks, from both traditional publishers and indie authors, are hitting the cyber bookshelf. So what’s an ebook author to do about book signings and sales if they don’t have a physical product to hand their reader? When I signed my recent contract for my mystery Digging Up Death with an ebook…
The How Tos of My Indie Journey by Ann Lee Miller
Three months ago I would have been the last writer on the planet to indie publish. Now, after hearing God and choking down a hairball of pride, I’m a lot like Paul who persecuted Christians, then became one. You can read the rest of that story here, but if you want to know the how…
Platform Building 101
A long time ago (okay, maybe it was just four years ago…), I wrote a book in a month. I knew this book was genius. I knew it would be snapped up, salivated over, and sold worldwide. I found myself an agent. Because that’s all we have to do, right? Wrong. First, we have to…
On Lord Byron, Vampires, and Big Headed Writers
If you run in the same Facebook circles I do, you’ve probably seen an image of Lord Byron with the words, “If I don’t write to empty my mind I go mad.” More than one writer, it seems, identifies with Lord Byron’s words. I understand the sentiment to a certain extent but wonder if we writers…
My Indie Publishing Journey by Ann Lee Miller
Three months ago I would have been the last writer on the planet to indie publish. Now, after hearing God and choking down a hairball of pride, I’m a lot like Paul who persecuted Christians, then became one. I was the 2011 president of the Phoenix chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers. My BA in…
Life After Death: The Saga of a Buried WIP Continues
If you’ve been following my writing career, you may remember back in 2009 a WIP called Digging Up Death and many posts like this one where after making the CBA rounds and burying my WIP, I dug it up again and reworked it! Or this one where I got that final rejection and had to bury Digging Up…
3 Ways to Support Your Fiction Habit
While Working Towards That Big Contract
Many of us are committed fiction writers, yet haven’t been paid for our efforts in years. Sometimes it’s hard to convince family and friends and we’re working when we don’t bring home a paycheck. Sometimes it’s even hard to convince ourselves. So what’s a devoted novelist to do while waiting to land a big contract?…