Lissa Bryan (who has featured on this blog before) today tweeted this: My heart aches, but this is the future, I suppose. Paper books will always have a niche market for bibliophiles… http://t.co/iqX0GKnE2o — Lissa Bryan (@LissaBryan) January 8, 2014 Borrowing the photo in the original LA Times article, this is what the world’s(…)
Browsing through my Twitter feed this morning, I came across this pure gem: Editing your book: it’s a basic requirement, not a selling point. http://t.co/fuSmeAGPTv @EditorJamieC #askeditor @RobertEdits — Michelle Ule (@Michelleule) November 3, 2013 I’ve written about the importance of editing before, including at Emlyn Chand’s excellent Novel Publicity, but still too many writers(…)
Whether you’re a reader or a writer, you’re happy and grateful that books exist. Most of us have never thought about having anything other than a Christmas tree (real or fake) in the festive season, but some have. Following my earlier post of the book Christmas tree, Linda Lee directed me to the ones she’s(…)
I don’t own a Kindle. I’m not alone in that, but there’s a certain peculiarity for me, as I’m a huge fan of technology and also of reading, so Amazon’s marketers would expect me to be first in line. But I never have been. Not that I don’t understand the appeal or the benefit –(…)
Earlier this week I read an enlightening post at Jennifer Represents, the blog of literary agent Jennifer Laughran. In this particular entry, Jennifer posts a great mock conversation with her and an agent agent (which I won’t reproduce her but I urge you to click the above link to read the entry), as well as(…)
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In simpler times (last year) the thought of writing a book through talking had never occurred to me. Not that I didn’t think it was against a writer’s ethics, it just didn’t enter my mind. Then the Day of Change came: through editing a client’s book, I found her mentor’s book writing how-to guide, in(…)
Earlier in my career I was quite surprised at the number of requests I had from people asking me how much it would cost to “edit my ebook”, or who spoke about them as their own entity – “I want to write an ebook” for instance. I’ve also experienced people asking whether they should write(…)
November is a busy month – it’s not only the month that confuses shop owners into playing Christmas music already, it’s also host to Movember and, ah, the event that inspires and terrifies writers: National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. There’s no denying it’s a popular event, according to the website there are 299,589 novelists signed(…)