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The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

August 3rd, 2008

Quotes About Writing - Videos For Writers

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Sort of a PowerPoint presentation, but a darn good collection of quotes about writing by writers:

Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing - a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision - for those who want to get a book written.
Tags: book-writing, characterization, fiction writers, freelance-writing, home-business, how to write […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

July 29th, 2008

A New, Almost Real, Online Bookstore

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Canadian Chris Thiessen has created what might be the closest thing to a real book store online at Zoomii.com. What he’s done, near as I can tell, is create an Amazon bookstore, but set it up so you’re seeing the covers on shelves just as you might if you walked into your nearest physical book […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

July 27th, 2008

How To Write A Book - Videos For Writers

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Dale Beaumont, creator of SecretsExposedClub.com - a bit of hype and the video stops before it’s over, but there are enough decent hints about getting a book written to make it worthwhile.

Write well and often,

Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing - a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision - for those […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

July 20th, 2008

Links To 5 Blogs By And About Literary Agents

Blogs by writers and by literary agents gives us some almost insider information that wasn’t available before blogging. If you’re looking for an agent you could do worse than search out their blogs. Here are a few agents and a couple of authors sharing their experiences with agency.
THE NEW LITERARY AGENTS - chatty blog from […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

June 29th, 2008

7 Blogs About Marketing Books

If you’ve written a book, you’ve simply got to market it, even if you have a trade publisher. Unless, of course, you’re already a famous writer with a following, a presidential candidate, or lead figure in a major scandal of some sort.
Here are some blogs, in no particular order, about marketing your book:

Book Marketing - […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments

April 2nd, 2008

True On Demand Books May Be Closer

I suppose the holy grail of print on demand or POD is for us to be able to walk into any bookstore and order up a bound copy of any book for a reasonable price in about 15 minutes or so. Back in June, egadget.com published a blog, complete with picture, announcing the addition of […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

March 12th, 2008

Are You Afraid To Get Your Book Written?

Are you afraid to get your book written? That’s such a rude question! Yet I find probably one out of every four or five people who contact me about getting a book written are actually so afraid of the project it never happens.
My own experience with fear says that the sooner I face it the […]

By Anne Wayman -- 11 comments

February 15th, 2008

What Do Those Best Seller Lists Really Mean?

Lol! I didn’t know what I was getting into when I started exploring the number of books sold. I guess my awareness is increasing because I just found Bryan Catherman’ post called Understanding Bestseller Lists on his blog, Beyond the Binding.
It’s a pretty good description of both the types of best seller lists out there, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

February 12th, 2008

Book Sales Numbers

Like everyone else who wants to get a book written, in addition to expressing myself, I also want to know, or at least guess, about how many books I’ll be able to sell. You’d think it would be simple, and it would be easier if publishers were willing to let the public know how many […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

January 22nd, 2008

Books for Cell Phones - It’s Really Happening

We’ve talked about writing a novel using your phone’s keypad, and we’ve talked about cell phones as a platform for ebooks.
Book marketing expert John Kremer points to an article in the New York Times called Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular. At this point, the novels are those that have been written for […]

By Anne Wayman -- 4 comments