by Linden Gross | Nov 19, 2020 | Publishing, Writing
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...
by Linden Gross | Nov 12, 2020 | Collaborating/Ghostwriting, Publishing, Writing
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...
by Linden Gross | Nov 2, 2020 | Publishing
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. Busting the Brass Ceiling isn’t just the story of how my co-author Fanchon Blake wound up...
by Linden Gross | Oct 22, 2020 | Marketing, Publishing
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. The problem? I’d pushed to get Busting the Brass Ceiling–the new book I’ve co-authored, which...
by Linden Gross | Oct 15, 2020 | Publishing, Sales, Writing, Writing Life
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...
by Linden Gross | Oct 8, 2020 | Marketing, Publishing
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...