Book Marketing Stories

Book Marketing Tip: Do Things Your Way

There is only one thing you need to know if you want to accomplish anything. All rules are wrong. That’s it. You don’t need to know anything else. All rules are wrong. Learn the rules. Then break them. Do things your way. Learn the rules first. Then smash them at will. All rules are wrong. […]

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Let’s Hear It for Creative Thinkers and Writers!

Let’s hear it for creative thinkers and writers! Here is the next Ernest Hemingway. Clearly a novelist to be. Let’s hear it for novelists! And poets! And memoirists! And nonfiction writers! Hurrah! Yippee! Hippee dippee! And let’s hear it for books! Let’s hear it for creative thinkers and writers! The next Ernest Hemingway. Clearly a novelist. […]

William Kennedy: On Hollywood Movie People

Novelist William Kennedy, author of Ironweed, once made the following point during an interview about his work. Hollywood people say no all the time. Very rarely do they say yes. The folks in Hollywood are in the business of not making movies. — William Kennedy He received a no on one of his novels. As […]

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Funny Book and Writing Memes

My writing teacher praised me. She said I could be the next J.D. Salinger — but only if I stay out of the public eye for 50 years. — @kileynoodles When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it […]