Lucy believes we spend too much time ‘intellectualizing’ – and isn’t that the truth? I know I spend a good bit of time justifying my behavior and the behavior of others by thinking it through, rather than allowing my ‘intuition’ or my ‘heart’ dictate how I should feel about a situation.
Until recently, if you wanted to publish your book in hardcover on KDP, that was not an option. That’s all changed, since the beta release of the KDP hardcover option. Here’s how it works and how to make it easy on yourself.
Deb’s backstory of how she got started goes all the way back to when she was a toddler and loved performing for her mom and other family members. We all have those memories, don’t we? It’s good to share them on your website and in your blog because it can easily bring you closer to your core audience – people who will be touched by that story of you as a child, and will relate to it because they, too, have those memories.
In a world of divisiveness, baking bread, making cakes, eating with other people, can calm nerves and change moods. Breaking bread with people brings us together as a group, doing something each person in the group likes to do – eat.
“I was so excited to hold my book in my hand,” a friend of mine told me. “It’s just marvelous to have it here, done, and ready to be shared with the world. I can’t even believe how heavy it is!” The awe in her voice was shining in her eyes, and I couldn’t help but share in it.
Ciaran has produced a masterpiece of fiction that is full fof act, insight, story, education, and illumination. For instance, what does adoption look like in the US, compared to … oh, say, Switzerland, where there are no shelters or strays. Where you have to take a 4-hour course before getting a dog. Where… well, watch the video and learn more about the differences between them and us and… why WE, as a country, as a dog loving community, as a society, can finally win the war on puppy mills.
There I was, this frightened and fearful teenage, sitting at my dining room table with pencil and paper, pouring her soul into stories with happy endings, where the heroine always got rescued, knowing there was no rescue for me, in my home. But the very act of writing gave me the courage and determination to get through an other day, and another day, until … I didn’t quite know what the ‘until’ was, but I knew there had to be something. Something else.
Tom here, to share my thinking behind this bit of marginalia. Here’s what I wrote aside a paragraph on “active learning” in the new book, Uncommon Sense Teaching: […]
Today I’m going to share my Book Writer’s Road Map to Publishing Success. In six steps. Doesn’t that sound easy?
As an acquisition editor in traditional publishing, owner of a publishing company, and as the digital rights director for a large literary agency in New York City, Julie knows firsthand what makes some books soar and others fail to take off. Her goal, she tells us, is to demystify the often obtuse and discouraging world of book publishing and help writers succeed in producing, publishing, and marketing their books.
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