F+W, 10151
Carver Road, Suite 300, Blue Ash OH 45242, USA
Learn how to sell
books, target your audience, hook literary agents, and so much more!
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Figuring Out Your Target Audience
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Do you know who
you're writing for? Like, truly, actually who your readers are—and why they
are (or should be) reading your stuff? It's easy to fall into the habit of
writing what you love or writing to impress your peers or your editor. That
might make for good writing... but it won't necessarily attract readers. To
do that, you have to write for, well, readers. Read More...
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The Craft & Business of Writing
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In the "good
old days" getting published was a labor of love (or insanity). If you
didn't have an agent, you prepared a synopsis, gathered the correct number of
sample chapters and wrote what you hoped was an amazing query letter. You
packed it all in an envelope along with a SASE (for you young'uns, that's a
self-addressed stamped envelope), sent it off, and waited. And waited. And
waited some more. Read More...
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When I was in Girl
Scouts, I dreaded Cookie Season. You were given an order form, and you were
supposed to get everyone you or your parents knew to order cookies. You were
even expected to go door to door asking strangers to place orders. (Times
change.) Because my parents both forbade me to do those things and refused to
take the order form to work with them, I always sold exactly one box of Thin
Mints and one box of Peanut Butter Patties (to them), which amounted to the
lowest cookie sales of any girl in Troop 1401, year after year. Read More...
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For today's prompt,
take the phrase "Little (blank)," replace the blank with a word or
phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write your poem.
Possible titles include: "Little Guy," "Little Richard," "Little
Mermaid," "Little Italy," and "Little Words That Pack a
Big Punch." I think if you think about it for a little bit, you'll find
a big (or little) poem to write. Read More...
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Congratulations on
publishing your first book! Maybe it's actually the second or third book
you've written, or your tenth, but at long last a publisher has recognized
the genius even you had begun to question. Go on and open that bottle of wine
that has aged so gracefully, if a little dustily, for the past decade. The
elliptical machine can wait until tomorrow. You've worked hard for this
moment, but more work lies in front of you. Until you reach that point in
your career when your name on the book cover dwarfs the title, the book
you've written needs help finding its way into readers' hands. How much your
publisher helps to spread the word will depend on many factors, not least of
which is their publicity budget, but there are many ways you can maximize
your book's visibility for minimal costs—or even for free. Read More...
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Learn how to hook an
agent with the upcoming How
to Find and Keep a Literary Agent boot camp. Real literary agents will
teach writers how to entice agents, editors, and readers by covering how to
query, write effective opening chapters, and so much more. Plus, all
attendees can receive agent feedback on their queries and first five pages. Read More...
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F+W, 10151
Carver Road, Suite 300, Blue Ash OH 45242, USA
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