Authors Great Blogs Publicity

Another $64,000 Publishing Question

Meghan Ward (right) at Writerland posed a question that I’ve been mulling over for a long time: “If Publicity Doesn’t Sell Books, What Does?” Several authors from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto weigh in on what worked — and what didn’t. Among the what didn’ts: Excerpt in O magazine Peoplereview Coverage in major newspapers like […]

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Agents Writing

My New Writing Mantra

Leave it to agent Mary Kole at KidLit.com to write one sentence that immediately claimed writing-mantra status for me: ” ‘Can’t’ ” is a four-letter word in fiction, when uttered by both character and writer.” (Boy, those quotes and apostrophe look WEIRD in blogtype!) I don’t know how many times I’ve said, “I CAN’T” when […]

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