Archive for Nonfiction
Getting Published Without A Platform
Introduction: The Need
(Since I’ll be sharing this information at the Georgia Writers Association on Saturday, I decided to blog it in order to get feedback and give the attendees a place to get whatever information they missed. I’ll present it point by point in separate blogs, calling them chapters. So here goes the introduction!)
The first three agents I pitched my current book to turned me down flat, saying, “Publishers of financial books usually want only people with strong platforms, like a radio show.”
Recently, on a professional publisher’s discussion group, someone asked,
“Which part of a formal book proposal do you feel is the absolute “clincher” to make the sale to a major book publisher?”
Getting Your Nonfiction Book Noticed by Reviewers
Where do you send copies of adult nonfiction books for review? (Many of these places also review fiction.) I decided to blog this process to save other authors time, since these reviewers change policies, consolidate, and otherwise change over time. Old lists may be dated.
How I Write, My Chatty Muse
Authors differ widely in how they write. My method would drive some crazy. Take what you can use; flush the rest. I’ll write this piece slowly, a bit at a time. So come back occasionally if you want more.
Where I Get My Ideas
I have a chatty muse.
Sometimes she bugs me relentlessly, feeding me ideas rapid fire while I’m driving, cooking, lifting weights or mowing. While I’m writing one manuscript, she taunts me by offering juicy morsels for other articles or books or Websites.
