Letters To The Editor For April 25th
This week:
- Selling Books at Book Fairs?
- Angela’s Memory Triggers/Autobiography Class
- Don’t Buy Window Vista! You will be sorry!!
Am I Too Old To Write? By Cathy Kaufman
Recently, I attempted to pursue something that has always been important to me…writing. I applied for a freelance job that I actually had quite a bit of knowledge in, but because I had not freelanced before, it was decided I wouldn
Add a Contingency Clause to Your Freelance Contract
It’s interesting that I read last week about having a contingency clause in a pays-on-publication contract because I signed one of those about six weeks ago without that kind of clause. I suppose I naively assumed the article would be published sooner than this fall.
Narrow Your Focus Before Pitching Your Book By Christina Katz
If there is one key piece of advice my editor, Jane Friedman from Writer’s Digest Books, has for writers with a non-fiction book idea, it’s the importance of narrowing a book’s focus before submitting a query. Seven years ago, I didn’t know that I needed to start the nonfiction book pitching process with a simple, narrowly focused query. I made things much more difficult for myself by trying to write the whole book first and then trying to sell it, lack of focus and all.
Escape!
Lucky Ali (age 16) is in Florida for a 10-day Spring Break trip. She went with a friend and the friend’s family. They have visited Epcot, Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, and a few other places. Ali will probably sleep for a week when she returns. She’s having a fabulous time and, while she says she misses her mommy, I know she’s lying.
Technology Steals Three Days From Me By Angela Hoy
I’ve chosen to whine long and loud this week about what happened to me last week. My laptop has had an electrical short for the past few weeks. The plug in the back would jiggle loose and I’d lose power. It also sucked the life out of two batteries. Sure, I had every intention of taking it in. But, as long as I could keep jiggling it back into working mode, I figured I could just put it off. Well, on Friday, it died for good. Luckily, I had backed up all my information the night before…
Letters To The Editor For April 18th
This week:
- WritersWeekly Saves Reader $3K
- World’s Worst Book Proposals
- Selling Stock Photos
- Kudos!
- Angela’s Paranoia – Children Who Are Choking
Book Signing 101 By Elizabeth Harrin
Your book has finally made it through the publishing process and you have a copy in hand. In fact, you
Keep Your Writing On Track By Eric D. Goodman
When it comes to your writing and how readers will react to it, you never really know what
My Paranoia – Children Who Are Choking
Gene Papin (https://www.papincraft.biz), a writer and woodworker, sent me an email last week in response to my missive on choking parts in squeaky toys. He said, “One of the things I do is make toys, along with scroll work. With regard to small children, if the toy fits inside the pasteboard roll (inside lining) of a paper towel roll, it will go down a small child’s throat and choke him.”