Tomorrow marks the fortieth anniversary of a historic class-action lawsuit’s consent decree spearheaded by an LAPD police sergeant named Fanchon Blake, with little to no help from anyone. Her fight for female equality would help end institutionalized sexual and racial discrimination practices not just in the LAPD but in law enforcement in general. Tomorrow also… Continue Reading
Shhh! It’s won’t be official for another eight days, but Busting the Brass Ceiling: How One Heroic Female Cop Changed the Face of Policing is already available on Amazon. The back cover copy reads: Fanchon Blake didn’t understand what she was getting into when she filed a discrimination complaint against the LAPD with the federal… Continue Reading
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Literary Agent:
Ted Weinstein
Ted Weinstein Literary Management
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San Francisco, CA 94104
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