by Linden Gross | Apr 30, 2020 | Writing, Writing Coach Services
“Show don’t tell” rolls off the tongue so easily. Showing what happens in your book rather than talking about it, however, just isn’t as simple as it sounds. It takes a while to make the shift and start experiencing your book in a way that...
by Linden Gross | Apr 23, 2020 | Business, Marketing, Writing
Tracia Larimer isn’t your ordinary mortgage broker. So when this creative, never-take-no-for-an-answer broker wanted to spread the word about her business, she decided to write a slim book that would answer a lot of her clients’ questions and help guide...
by Linden Gross | Apr 16, 2020 | Lessons From my Dogs, Writing, Writing Coach Services
As a youngster, my lovely English Cocker Hoover loved to play fetch. Without waiting to see which way you were going to throw the ball, he would launch himself in whatever direction made sense to him and run as fast as he could. When he’d gone what he deemed to...
by Linden Gross | Apr 3, 2020 | Writing
I’ve dreamed of launching an online version of a game called Pass the Story for years. What better time than now, when we’re stuck at home and in need of serious distraction? For those of you who may have forgotten, Pass the Story involves having one...
by Linden Gross | Apr 2, 2020 | Language, Marketing, Publishing, Writing
Most writers know that their back cover blurb needs to convince readers to buy the book. As a result, a lot of blurbs focus on why the book is so great instead of addressing why the reader might be interested in the topic. You can see the exact same mistake on website...
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...
