Book Marketing Stories

Special Invite: Writers Can Become Professional Speakers

Robin Jay, president of the Las Vegas Convention Speakers Bureau, is inviting authors and speakers to join the bureau. The special package will help authors and speakers to succeed at speaking by taking advantage of her experience as well as that of literary agent Deb Herman and book marketing guru John Kremer. This is a […]

Book Marketing Tip of the Week: 6 November 2012

John Kremer’s Book Marketing Tip of the Week November 6, 2012 – Marching Band Day / I Love Nachos Day / Boob Tube Day / Marooned Without a Compass Day / Oral Herpes Day / The Universe in a Nutshell Day / Ultimate Frisbee Intercollegiate Day In this issue . . . – Infographics of […]

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Pixar’s 22 Rules for Storytelling: Challenge Your Characters. Come Up With Your Ending Before Doing Your Middle. #writing #writers #authors Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling Admire characters for attempting more. Keep in mind what’s interesting to you. Get to the end of the story. Then rewrite. Once upon a time there was . . . […]

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The I Before E Rule: This Is Funny

I found this funny graphic on Facebook, shared by Grammarly.com and created my Simon Taylor. This is #funny. i before e except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor. The i before e rule is certainly handy but it clearly has a lot of exceptions. 21 39