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11 Mistakes Writers Make When Approaching Literary Agents

2012-05-16T12:35:08Z

From Writer’s Relief staff:

Let’s face it: Writing a book requires different skills than writing a query letter. While there are no “rules”...

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Infographic: How A Book is Born

2012-05-15T15:34:12Z

There's much romantic talk about a writer's process. An epiphany, some procrastination, an extended trip to an isolated wooded area, immense frustrati...

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Penny C. Sansevieri: Cutting Out Amazon.com: Does It Still Make Sense to Sell There?

2012-05-14T12:05:39Z

That said, there's nothing wrong with offering your book on your website or ramping up ways to sell it direct to consumer. The process might take time, but here are some ideas that could help you move a sale from Amazon to your website.

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Kirsten Dirksen: Seventies DIY Pioneer Publishes Book on Tiny Homes

2012-05-10T17:39:31Z

Lloyd Kahn's Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter is a nod to the current "grassroots movement to scale things back," and in it he profiles about 150 builders who have created homes under 500 square feet.

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Michael Gilmour: Judging THE Book By Its Cover

2012-05-09T12:43:44Z

The paratextual content in modern Bibles goes far beyond basic features, of course, and there appears to be no limit to the marketing creativity of publishers who continuously repackage the Scriptures.

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John B. Thompson: The Future Of Books In 7 Easy Steps

2012-05-09T11:22:52Z

For 500 years, the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but today the industry finds itself faced with the greatest challenges since Gutenberg.

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Lev Raphael: S**t People Say to Writers

2012-05-07T16:01:00Z

Have you been published?

What do you write? Oh.

Do you have, like, a real job?

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A.J. Walkley: Are Book Trailers Necessary?

2012-05-04T09:43:59Z

Trailers for movies make sense -- a visual medium for a visual product. If you aim to read a book, why do you need anything more than the synopsis of the book before you know whether you want to read it?

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Mark Coker: Do E-book Customers Prefer Longer or Shorter Books?

2012-04-26T18:43:09Z

Back in the early days of ebooks, it was common to hear experts prognosticate that ebook customers would prefer shorter books.

After all, the theor...

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Rachel Kramer Bussel: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Author E.L. James Starts U.S. Book Tour With a Bang

2012-04-30T14:57:46Z

Hot on the heels of the explosive Katie Roiphe Newsweek cover story examining women's sexual fantasies, New York Times bestselling author of the Fifty...

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M.J. Rose: The Mystery of a Book Bus Tour

2012-04-30T19:29:25Z

The Atria Mystery Bus tour took off April 12th. I think that what made the strongest impression on me was much we all love books. The authors on the tour. The amazing booksellers who hosted us. And the readers who came out to see us.

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M.J. Rose: Sales Appeal

2012-04-27T19:14:40Z

Bridges of Madison County, The Da Vinci Code, The Help and Sarah's Key have very little in common with each other. But they all had that certain indefinable something that appealed to readers.

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Stephanie Vanderslice: Publish, Don't Perish: Surviving and Thriving in Academia Today

2012-04-25T12:32:16Z

Passion. Persistence. Patience. Any editor worth her salt will tell you to avoid cloying alliteration but that's what thriving in academia comes down to; there's no avoiding it.

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Jesse Aizenstat: The Big Six Book Publishers Need to Innovate Like the Good Americans That They Are

2012-04-24T10:47:14Z

It's a sad day for the Big Six publishers -- but not because they're in a bitter race to the bottom. It's sad because of their thinking. These publishers would rather close the doors and slash their staff than innovate in a changing market.

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Lori Culwell: Harlequin Picks Up "Sh*t Girls Say" Book, But Can Old Industries Keep Up With Internet Time?

2012-04-18T18:26:07Z

Most Internet memes have the shelf life of a banana, and trying to capture these memes in traditional forms like publishing or television is often an exercise in "too little, too late, no one cares anymore."

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Warren Adler: The E-Book Dilemma

2012-04-17T14:37:43Z

For fiction authors who are published by traditional publishers and rely on advances and royalties for their living, the future is dim.

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Julie Gerstenblatt: How to Get a Book Deal: Tiger Mom, Diet Mom and Me

2012-04-16T20:58:10Z

In the spirit of the "damned if you do/damned if you don't" memoir, I am determined to find my inner Tiger Mom/Diet Mom and expose her to the world.

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Jim Kukral: The New Business Model of Book Publishing

2012-04-16T11:21:24Z

As more established, quality authors who kept the rights to their work figure out that it's to their advantage to publish themselves on Kindle rather than beg for contracts from "big" publishers, there will be an explosion of great work available in e-book form.

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Lev Raphael: Writing a Muscular Mystery

2012-04-05T16:43:24Z

I've always been making up stories about people I see, whether in restaurants, malls, parks, theaters, wherever. hat's just how I see the world, or the many worlds within this world. One of those is the enormous health club that I've belonged to for 20 years.

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Kelly Cogswell: On Being an American, or Dykes Are Always Foreign

2012-04-05T13:57:50Z

The agent said I sounded amazing, but should apply directly to a press that specialized in lesbian writing. This thing could never go mainstream. I suddenly wasn't an American anymore.

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Frances Moore Lappe: What's the Difference Between Fox News and Oxford University Press?

2012-04-05T13:40:11Z

Democracy depends on honest, fair, accurate debate. Without it, we can't possibly meet today's challenges. And if academic presses don't hold the line -- when fair discourse in the wider culture is in collapse -- who will?

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BJ Gallagher: The Ten Awful Truths -- and the Ten Wonderful Truths -- About Book Publishing

2012-04-05T14:11:24Z

So, which list is true? "The Ten Awful Truths About Book Publishing" or "The Ten Wonderful Truths About Book Publishing"? They both are.

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Alma Katsu: Is Fifty Shades of Grey a New Frontier in Fan Fiction?

2012-04-04T10:29:47Z

With the recent sale of movie rights to the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, the debate over fan fiction has heated up.

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Gary M. Krebs: The Mentor's Mentor

2012-03-26T22:58:00Z

No matter the situation, I would ask myself the question: "What would Gerry do?" Just imagining the answer got me through many complex challenges. I even made a list of the top six attributes that made his leadership style so effective.

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Lev Raphael: Is The Hunger Games Really the Future of Writing?

2012-03-25T19:13:54Z

Now, maybe some writers can write to a formula, can churn out books that try to catch the cultural mood, books that mimic best sellers, but I suspect most authors are like me: We write the books we want to.

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