Want free publicity? Tie your story to current events
HOW CAROL BURNETT BECAME A STAR How potent is tying your subject matter to current events? Potent enough to turn Carol Burnett from a little known night club singer into a national star. According to...
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In an interview with literary agent Grace Freedson, it’s evident that one way to get published is to filter your self-help or how-to book through the lens of the economic realities we face today: “I...
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What Literary Agents Want to See If You’re Not Famous, Part IV
Literary agents always have a story of a book they recently sold where the author wasn’t famous– but had a story that was so interesting and well-written that they had to represent it. Typically, it’s...
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Sweet and Sour Literary Agents (and Rumi)
This is a tale of two pairs of literary agents. Each pair includes a sweet one and a sour one. Sounds like a fairy tale? It kind of is– with both a happy ending and a moral. The first tale involves...
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Get in Chicken Soup for the Soul
If you want a literary agent, it can't hurt to get a story in Chicken Soup for the Soul. If you want a literary agent, it helps to have some writing credits. One good writing credit to put on your...
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A Surprising Way to Create a Fanbase
I just created a new feature for my e-zine: Author Freebie of the Week. I’m finding some great ebooks, podcasts, teleseminars and videos that people are giving away. These items are extremely useful...
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7 TV Shows Authors are Guaranteed to Get On
What do Elvira, The Food Network’s Bobby Flay, and comedian Tom Green all have in common? They all started out on public access television. PBS affiliate KTCA even picked up a program called Mental...
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Vote for Your Favorite Cover for Rick Warren’s New Book
Vote on Rick Warren's next book cover. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold 30 million copies, has done something unusual for the cover of his next book, The Hope You Need...
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7 WAYS TO FIND PEOPLE TO INTERVIEW FOR YOUR BOOK
You need anecdotes from lots of OTHER people if you want to impress literary agents with with your book. The biggest problem I notice with many of the unpublished self-help books I look over is too...
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From Tiny Blog to Book Deal to Oprah
Here’s a true story to help you understand how to get noticed by hundreds of thousands of people and eventually have the media begging for interviews with you. If you want to be in this position...
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