It’s a classic “Which comes first? The chicken or egg?” kind of question: Should you build your author platform or write your book first? We get versions of this question…
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Table of Contents Introduction What is a Book Proposal? What Goes into a Book Proposal? 3 Steps Before Writing a Book Proposal How to Write a Book Proposal Nonfiction Book…
If you’re self-publishing your book, does that mean you can’t get publicity? Not according to my guest today, the publicist Dawn Michelle Hardy, who is also a friend of mine….
By the time I launched my first book, I had already been in the industry for 20 years. So I’d had the great fortune of seeing what had worked for…
If you’re planning to self-publish your book, we need to sit down and have a heart to heart. It’s about your book cover. I know, you probably don’t have a…
This has been a big year for me and KN Literary arts. Lots of growth and change on all fronts. (More on that as the year winds down!) But when…
It may sound counterintuitive, but making money from your “paper book” is the last thing I want an aspiring author to be thinking about. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing…
Want to know the quickest way to have someone decline a night out with you? Ask them to accompany you to a networking function! Networking, ewwww! Most people think it…
Lora Cheadle was just like a lot of authors who come to KN Literary for assistance. When she came to us, she wasn’t famous. She didn’t have a bunch of…
If you’re like just about any first-time author I meet, once you finally have your book in the world all you want to do is get the word out. You…