Yup. Life happens when we’re making other plans. It had been a stressful week. I just needed to decompress, so I reached out to my friend, Laura, who, it turned out, needed some downtime even more than I did. We agreed to take our dogs for a walk in the Badlands, a wilderness area just… Continue Reading
In this next to last installment (Part 7) of the series about how to get schools to buy your book—culled from a plan of action created for my friend, client, and associate, Morri Stewart, and her fantasy novel Faltofar—curriculum developer turned creativity coach, Deborah Allen, reviews how to create your instructional strategy related to selling… Continue Reading
If you’re thinking about how best to market the novel or nonfiction work you’ve just published, don’t forget about the possibility of promoting a book on podcasts. According to Buzzsprout, some 90 million Americans now regularly listen to podcasts, and that number is expected to grow. Of course, that doesn’t help much if you don’t… Continue Reading
In Part 6 about how to get schools to buy your book—culled from a plan of action created for my friend, client, and associate, Morri Stewart, and her fantasy novel Faltofar—curriculum developer turned creativity coach, Deborah Allen, talks about how to create curriculum and the related instruction, starting with figuring out the pedagogy related to… Continue Reading
A number of my clients writing novels have struggled with characters’ point of view (POV for short) in their work. POV means that you enter a character’s head and see the world from his or her point of view. The problem is that entering every character’s head including the minor ones can, well, make the… Continue Reading
In Part 5 about how to get schools to buy your book—culled from a plan of action created for my friend, client, and associate, Morri Stewart, and her fantasy novel Faltofar—curriculum developer turned creativity coach, Deborah Allen, talks about how to create curriculum and the related instruction, starting with writing up your philosophy of education… Continue Reading
You’ve written a trade book, the kind that bookstores sell. Now you have to decide which of your publishing options to go with. Do you want to self-publish or go the traditional route? Those of us who have done both can vouch for the fact that each has its pros and cons. Continue Reading
In Part 4 about how to get schools to buy your book—culled from a plan of action created for my friend, client, and associate, Morri Stewart, and her fantasy novel Faltofar—curriculum developer turned creativity coach, Deborah Allen, brainstorms how to market a book to teachers: It’s a simple fact: no one cares about your book… Continue Reading
I searched unsuccessfully for a literary attorney for years. People would tell me just to call my business lawyer when my referral requests repeatedly failed to yield results. “She’s great, but she doesn’t specialize in author legal advice,” I would argue. Then I found Kathryn Goldman — editor-in-chief of the Creative Law Center, a lawyer at Goldman &… Continue Reading
The hardest part of writing a book to boost your business often involves determining what you want to say. Have you ever gotten so close to a typewritten page that the words blur or so close to a painting that you can no longer see the big picture? Getting a little distance (and in some… 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