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What To Do After You’ve Written Your 1st Book
June 20, 2025
Way to go, you wrote your first book, published it, maybe. What next? There’s a couple of things. Marketing is one option, but it’s not the most important option. What about sales? How do we get money for our book if we’re not marketing it? Well, sales are nice, but they aren’t the main goal...
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How To Publish Your 1st Novel (Part 2)
June 13, 2025
So you’ve received only form letters, telling you that either the agent is not accepting new clients, or that the publisher is not interested in your novel at this time. What a bummer. Maybe you’ve simply gotten overwhelmed with the amount of work involved in sending out all those inquiries to the publishing gatekeepers, and...
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How To Publish Your 1st Novel (Part 1)
June 6, 2025
It’s time to publish your book. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, all your life. Well, maybe not all your life, but surely over the last several months you’ve been looking forward to this day. Only problem is, you don’t know how to publish it. Do you go the traditional route, of searching for an agent and/or publisher? Or do...
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Editing Your First Novel
May 30, 2025
Did you finally finish your first book? Congratulations. There is something incredibly satisfying about finishing your novel. You might even think the hard part is over. If that is what you’re thinking, then I’m sorry, but its time to burst that thought bubble. You have just stepped into the realm of editing. When I first ventured into this...
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How To Write Your First Novel
May 23, 2025
So, you’ve decided to write your first novel? Congrats. I don’t know what your motivations are, but it doesn’t matter. Everyone seems to have that one story in the back of their heads that they would like to write someday. I can’t tell you how many times someone has told me something like this. But you know what separates them from...
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Becoming A Writer
May 16, 2025
It seems like everyone has a story to tell. I did, though I didn’t know it at the time. Maybe you do, and you’re trying to figure out how to get started. Maybe you don’t, but you’ve read some books and thought, “Gee, I could do as good or better.” But where do you start? Can you overcome the mountain of a task that is writing...
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