I don’t ever wonder why people would hire a book/writing coach like me. Twenty-five years of helping clients work through their writing struggles and publish their books tells me all I need to know. But if there was any lingering doubt, all I’d have to do is look at myself. Continue Reading
Is me or I correct? Do you know? Or have you joined the apparent national movement to get that wrong? The trend drives me so nutty that I’m going to do my bit to reverse it by reposting a version of this rant every quarter. Of course, it’s hard to blame anyone for the mistake,… Continue Reading
To know me is to know my dogs. They are my family. They are my constant companions at home or on the road in my Eurovan, which should be named Dog House 2. Dog House 1, a Rialta that looked like a stretched version of the Eurovan, finally died a few years ago after several… Continue Reading
Olympic champion sprinter Michael Johnson, who won four Olympic gold medals and eight Word Championship gold medals, had an absolute sense of how we would work together on his book Gold Rush. We were going to take what has now become a standard hybrid approach to helping writers. “I’m going to write raw rough draft,”… Continue Reading
“A closed mouth doesn’t get fed,” a teen said at the close of a recent NPR interview about students in Chicago having a voice regarding their school improvements. I’d never heard the saying, but I figured it was a little too pithy for a high school student to come up with. I was right. Still,… Continue Reading
A few months ago, a researcher contacted my brother, Jeff, and me about interviews my dad had conducted for his book The Last Jews in Berlin, originally published in 1982. He wanted to use one particular set of interviews for a book he’s helping another author with. He was willing to pay. Did we even… Continue Reading
Bad habits are hard to break. On dog walks, my two-year-old English Cocker Spaniel continues to jump on humans and their canine companions. Meanwhile, my five-year-old Aussie-Shepherd-Husky insists on introducing himself to new pups in the most intimate of ways. Both despite all my efforts and a few protests from other dogs. I tell people… Continue Reading
Are your efforts to promote yourself and/or the products or services you offer serving you as well as they should? Let’s see. Does your promotional material: Each of the above points is critical to your marketing success. Here’s why: Continue Reading
“I want this book to be a bestseller,” my writing coach prospects and clients will often say to me. Who doesn’t? I think to myself as I rush to assure them that if I knew the key to writing a bestseller, I would likely be sipping a cocktail under a palm tree on a sandy… Continue Reading
I love brainstorming. It’s one of my favorite things to do when working with clients, since together we can reach ideas that neither of us would have accessed alone. So, I experience the power of brainstorming regularly and see the results in both fiction and nonfiction books. But I haven’t often had the benefit of… 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