by Nikki Nash | Apr 16, 2021 | Publishing, The Book Biz
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 Proposal Template Formatting Your Book Proposal You Have Your Book proposal, Now What? Next...
by Kelly Notaras | May 3, 2019 | Love + Books, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
I have a confession to make: When I first dreamed of being an author, I wasn’t dreaming about changing my readers’ lives. I also wasn’t dreaming about what a great example I would be setting for my nieces, or how publishing my own book would make me that much more...
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by Kelly Notaras | Apr 26, 2019 | Love + Books, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
The fact is, over 300,000 books are published every year. As original as each of us is, we aren’t that original in certain ways. As an aspiring author, you may bump up against this lack of originality in one particular—painful—way. During the research phase that is de...
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by Kelly Notaras | Apr 10, 2019 | Love + Books, Publishing, The Book Biz, Writing
A big part of my job as an editor and a book publishing educator is to explain how book marketing works. There’s one point that really gets me fired up. That’s the question of what the term “bestseller” means. Stick with me—I’m about to get controversial. There is a...
by Kelly Notaras | Apr 5, 2019 | Love + Books, Publishing, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
Most of the aspiring authors I talk to want very much to be published by a traditional publisher right now. You may understand the feeling. (I certainly do!) And, there’s often a lot these hardworking, big-dreaming authors don’t yet know about how the biz works. Today...
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by Kelly Notaras | Mar 15, 2019 | Editing, Editor's Pick, Love + Books, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
There are a thousand different reasons to write a book: You might be writing it for your heart—because you just have to. You might be writing it for your art—creative expression in action. You might be writing it for your clients—so you can hand them all your wisdom...
