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Book Writing GIFs: How to Find a Publisher for Your Book

This is the third section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 17 GIFs. You now have an agent. What’s next? Now it’s time to submit to publishers. So you’re back to making submissions, which makes you do a Conan: Then the editors start saying no […]

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Book Writing GIFs: Finding a Literary Agent

This is the second section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 14 GIFs. You have finished a novel. Only then do you find out that you have to find a literary agent. What the heck? So you write your query letter. And you obsess over […]

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Michael Levine: Ten Commandments for Dealing with the Media

A little story first: Michael Levine once sent out a great package for his book, Lessons at the Halfway Point (Celestial Arts). The package included three pages with cartoons at the top and some brief information about the book at the bottom. The fourth page was excerpted from Reader’s Digest, which featured a quote from […]

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Book Marketing Tips: The Rule of Five

In my experience, the major error that new book authors make is that they stop too soon in promoting their books. Other things begin to pull for their attention and, soon, their book promotion efforts fall by the wayside. I’m going to give you a basic rule — a rule that forbids excuses, a rule […]