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Nina Amir on How to Market Your Book 20 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
Today we are going to interview Nina Amir who will offer us some tips on how to market your book on the Internet. Nina is a writing coach who motivates writers to create publishable books an...
The Singularity of Grove Press 17 Jul 2013 | 05:36 am
Today we are going to talk with Loren Glass, author of Counter-Culture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde. This book was recently released by Sta...
Flaubert’s Kettle 25 Jun 2013 | 03:52 am
“Human Speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” – Gustave Flau bert, Madame Bovary I see a lot o...
How to Organize Your Own Book Tour 3 Jun 2013 | 05:52 am
Today we are going to talk about how authors can organize their own book tour. We’re speaking with book marketing maven, Carl Lennertz. Carl has worked with Random House, Knopf, and HarperCollins, as...
Sometimes I Really Do Discover Writers at Conferences 26 May 2013 | 01:56 am
The first time I met Tawni Waters was at the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference this February. I was participating in the workshop on “voice” given by Dinty Moore. At the end of the class, ...
The Absolutely Most Important Agent’s Tip For Writers: First Impressions Count 17 May 2013 | 10:41 pm
Readers of Ask the Agent know I’m suspicious of the seemingly endless stream of publishing tips that you read in writers publications, blogs, and workshops. Given my skepticism about this kind of sh...
Ask the Agent — The Book 25 Apr 2013 | 08:10 pm
If you look over there on the right, you will see the cover for my new (and only) book, Ask the Agent: Night Thoughts on Writing and Book Publishing. It’s an e-book collection of the best writings fr...
Kant, Plato and E-Books. 2 Apr 2013 | 10:51 pm
On February 7, Amazon.com announced that it had patented a way to sell “used e-books, music, videos, and other digital objects”. I was puzzled by this. Digital files aren’t really “used” in the same ...
Eleven Steps to Finding an Agent 19 Mar 2013 | 04:39 am
I teach a class on finding and working with agents. A lot of prospective authors who attend the class are a little intimidated by the process and need to know the basics of agent research. So here a...
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules For Writing 5 Mar 2013 | 02:33 am
As an agent, I get a lot of fiction submissions. Usually I can tell if I don’t like them by the end of the first page. Sometimes by the end of the first paragraph. I’m a little embarrassed to make thi...
