by Linden Gross | Mar 11, 2021 | Business, Sales, Writing
Why do authors tend to give away their writing? “They’ve chosen a few pages of my latest book to use in a standardized test that will be given to 70,000 students this spring,” one of my most successful writing coach clients emailed me yesterday....
by Linden Gross | Jan 14, 2021 | Marketing, Publishing, Sales
My former writing coach client’s two books weren’t new. Far from it. Dr. Surender R. Neravetla, MD, FACS–director of cardiac surgery at Ohio’s Springfield Regional Medical–published Salt Kills in 2012 and Salt: Black America’s...
by Linden Gross | Oct 29, 2020 | Marketing, Sales
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...
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 | Mar 26, 2020 | Marketing, Publishing, Sales, Writing
“Oh, how I dislike writing blurbs,” my writing coach client Morri Stewart exclaimed the other day as she struggled with what she called Take Two of her back cover blurb, which was probably Take Five once all the other attempts had been factored in. Hard to...
by Linden Gross | Nov 14, 2019 | Publishing, Sales, Uncategorized
By the time you start thinking about the production and distribution of your book, you’ve usually got the writing and design of your book well in hand. Or perhaps you’re just thinking ahead. Kudos to you, either way. So let’s talk about book...
