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Why We Blog, and Tips To Keep Us Inspired | Book Publishing Coach - 0 views

  • Content is King
  • If non-fiction, create stand-alone pieces  anywhere from 300-700 words per post. If fiction, craft a stand-alone episode with a provocative title.
  • Set up some Google Alerts to see who else is writing in your niche.
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13 Blog Post Ideas for Novelists | Michael Hyatt - 0 views

  • A Behind-the-Scenes Look. Give us a sense of what it is like to be a novelist. How did you feel when you finally landed an agent? What does a typical writing day look like for you? What’s it like to see your book in print and hold a copy in your hand for the first time?
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Pubmission: The Blog - 0 views

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    This my new site, designed to digitize the slush pile once and for all.
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How to Write What People Actually Want to Read | Write to Done - 0 views

  • over time, more and more blog traffic arrives from Search Engines
  • In order to optimize your post for a particular keyword phrase you can get a free plugin, called WordPress SEO which helps you to use the keywords you’ve found in all the right places.
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Ten ways self-publishing has changed the books world - 0 views

  • The industry has long suffered the irony that effective publishing is most evident when invisible; it is only when standards are less than felicitous that we realise how well what we read is managed most of the time.
  • Gone is our confidence that publishers and agents know exactly what everyone wants to (or should) read
  • The copy editor, a traditionally marginalised figure, is now in strong demand.
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  • Now, as authors meet their readers at literary festivals, run blogs or tweet, they know their readers well and are no longer solely reliant on their publishers to mediate relationships.
  • Now that so many self-publishing authors are finding the market themselves, agents need to find new ways to make their work pay. If agencies are multi-faceted (film, television, after-dinner speaking) they may be protected, but smaller agencies will struggle.
  • The role of the agent is also changing.
  • New writing patterns are developing too: team writing; ghost writing; software to assist the crafting.
  • Self-publishing brings happiness.
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From the Slush Pile… | Ploughshares - 0 views

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    "If you want to get out of the slush pile, one of the worst things you can do is write a lackluster first paragraph."
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Anne R. Allen's Blog: Indie or Traditional Publishing? Don't Take Sides: Take Your Time - 1 views

  • “The biggest challenge [to authors today] is self-restraint. Publishing tools, like Smashwords make it fast, free and easy for any writer anywhere in the world to publish. But we don’t make it easy to write a great book. Many writers, intoxicated by the freedom to self-publish, will often release their book before it’s ready.”
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In E-Book War, the Independent Publishers Strike Back | mediaIDEAS - 0 views

  • the nine independent publishers who finally took a stand: Abrams Books, Chronicle Books, Grove/Atlantic Inc. Chicago Review Press, Inc, New Directions Publishing Corp., W.W. Norton & Company, Perseus Books Group (where I work), the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, and Workman Publishing.
  • the independent publishers asserted that, “in aggregate, according to market data published by Nielsen BookScan the independents accounted for approximately 49 percent of total trade book sales nationwide in 2011.” A significant portion of those sales were through Amazon, which is why their decision to challenge the settlement and incur the possible wrath of this retailing giant is cou rageous.
  • If the agency model is effectively banned, Amazon will have the ability to price whole categories of e-books below cost in a way that is likely to drive out competition from other less deep-pocketed booksellers as well as brick and mortar booksellers.
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  • By effectively banning the agency model for the settling publishers, the proposed settlements would harm rather than enhance competition–enabling one large retailer (Amazon) to regain a monopoly or near monopoly position through below-cost pricing.
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