You have to finish the first draft of your book as fast as you can. The challenge to finishing fast is that you can get stuck on something you need to come back to and research or rewrite. When you are racing to “The End,” you want to finish fast. Stopping to shift from “writing…
Author Tips
Tips for entrepreneurial authors.
Newsletter Names: Don’t call your email newsletter a “newsletter.” Use one of these ideas instead.
I heard Nick Stephenson say in an interview that renaming his email “Newsletter” as a “Reading Group” increased the number of people that signed up. Listen to the full interview here: Getting Your First 10,000 Readers with Nick Stephenson (Self-publishing School Podcast) He pointed out that no one wants to sign up for a newsletter,…
Why Blogging Is Free
In the summer of 2017 I took The Marketing Seminar online course with Seth Godin. This is an adaptation of a post I wrote in the course forum. It helped clarify my thinking about the purpose of blogging. For years now there has been a lot of talk about “monetizing your blog.” The thought is…
Document Your Journey Like It’s 2007
So, I’m reading the second book of The Maze Runner series. I’m a writer and I like learning about other writers, so I did some research on the creator of the series, James Dashner. I came across something really fascinating last night. He was documenting his author journey in a blogspot blog he called “The…
Book Elevator Pitch Template: How to Explain What Your Book is About
I probably get the question once or twice a week. People know I’m a writer so it almost always comes up in conversation. “So, are you working on a book?” Filled with dread about the next question, I answer, “Yes, actually.” “What’s it about?” Most of the time I fumble through a wandering explanation of…
