Oh, yes! We know you’re excited!! Today, we’re going to share another installment of our popular column, World’s Worst Query Letters and Book Proposals. We’ve been savings these for a few weeks now so there are a LOT to entertain you!
Whether you’re an author or are freelancing, you don’t always have to create new pieces from scratch to make another sale.
Today, when you apply for that lucrative, long-term freelance writing job, chances are that the hiring manager will interview you through real-time video…
Do the illustrations have to be in a specific format for publishing? Yes, they do!
You can bet that the minute you post something that Facebook (or any of your readers for that matter) doesn’t like, you’re going to…
Some bloggers are News Rewriters and they, too, can be held liable if they distribute incorrect information (libel, defamation, and invasion of privacy)…
Author Andy was so excited! His new book was finished and he’d just approved his print galley. It was time to start selling books! His publishing company put his book up for sale on their website and sent him the URL where he could send people who wanted to purchase his book.
Andy didn’t have his own website or blog, but he didn’t think that would be a problem. Unfortunately, it was, on several fronts. And, while Andy and the other authors below are fictitious, the scenarios are based on real complaints we’ve received from authors over the years. In every case, had the author had their own website or blog, he or she would have lost few, if any, sales.
These 5 steps brought me more and better clients.
By contacting me today, this author may have avoided a lawsuit, or two, or a few.
A renown writing teacher told me my book would never sell so I proved her wrong!
