My new book, Busting the Brass Ceiling: How One Heroic Female Cop Changed the Face of Policing, is just about to be published. I’m looking for five people to review it. Continue Reading
Book Promotion on Social Media
I’ve never much cared for social media. Hanging out on Facebook isn’t my idea of fun–it involves a computer or phone screen, so it’s work. When it comes to online book promotion, however, it’s unavoidable work. So that’s how I spent the better part of October. Welcome to the discomfort zone. Continue Reading
Book Endorsements
Book endorsements can help sell books. I know that. I also know that I should have started trying to secure the endorsements for my new book a lot earlier. Continue Reading
Writer Self-Doubt
Feeling frustrated? Indulging in a little (or a lot) of writer self-doubt? To Kill a Mockingbird author Nelle Harper Lee was so disenchanted with her manuscript that she threw it out the window of her New York apartment. Luckily, since those were the days of typewriters rather than computers, she retrieved the pages, tore them… Continue Reading
Talking YA Novel Promotion
Have you looked into YA novel promotion? You will need to if you want people to read that young adults’ novel you have worked so hard to write. So I thought I would share this rambling Zoom conversation I just had with @KeriBarnum, the book promotion expert Incubation Press has recently teamed with, and Morri… Continue Reading
Writing a Tough Memoir
Memoirs usually aren’t the easiest to write. Let’s face it. Most people don’t decide to write a memoir based on happy, serene experiences. The personal memories that move people to dive into this kind of nonfiction narrative writing are usually difficult ones based on situations they’ve had to overcome. But writing a tough memoir means… Continue Reading
Power Up Your Writing Skills: Dialogue
If your narrative has started to feel like a dead fish, you clearly need to employ life-saving measures. Showing readers what happens to the people in your story can help turn around even the most critically-ill piece of writing. So can letting them hear it through solid dialogue. Continue Reading
Writing a Thriller
I love Donald Westlake’s 5C approach to writing a novel, which I wrote about in last week’s blog. This week, I share an article by James Scott Bell in the Writer’s Digest about the 5Cs of writing a thriller. The secret lies not in chase or shoot-’em-up scenes, but rather in writing a thriller that… Continue Reading
Creating a Plot
Want to try your hand at fiction but not sure where to start? I love this simple approach to creating a plot, which was originally featured in a 1959 Writer’s Digest article by Donald Westlake, an award-winning American writer who penned more than a hundred novels and non-fiction books. Although he specialized in crime writing,… Continue Reading
Success Story: Morri Stewart’s Faltofar
It’s always a great day when a client’s book that you had a hand in shaping and editing gets a positive review. The fact that my client, Morri Stewart, is also a friend, and that her young adults’ fantasy novel Faltofar got a fantastic review, makes this all the sweeter. Continue Reading
Literary Agent:
Ted Weinstein
Ted Weinstein Literary Management
Mechanics’ Library Building
57 Post Street, Suite 512
San Francisco, CA 94104
tw@twliterary.com
www.twliterary.com