Sue Collier | July 26, 2010
Guest blogger: Fiona Ingram
I live in South Africa and I am published in the USA. Distance has made it impossible for me to go the traditional marketing route. Online is all I have open to me. I have worked very hard to go from “Fiona Who?” to not quite “Aha, Fiona Ingram, the famous children’s [...]
Sue Collier | July 7, 2010
Guest blogger: Dana Lynn Smith
This post, the third of a three-part series on building an author platform, highlights the importance of connections. Part one of this author platform series covers branding, while part two discusses reputation.
When selling your book, it’s not just what you know, it’s who you know!
To sell books in today’s marketplace, you [...]
Sue Collier | March 10, 2010
I have to speak up again today after reading this blog post: http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/CommentView.aspx?guid=8f273388-29f7-4bcc-9b1f-3efd79f5cf10
The blog wasn’t cooperating with my comment addition, however, so I’m going to put it right here:
“…the industry is now experiencing a “true self-publishing” movement that argues a “real” self-published author is one who eschews the use of services like AuthorSolutions.
“I find the [...]
Sue Collier | March 10, 2010
I read this blog post today
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2010/03/think-hard-before-self-publishing.html
from a literary agent, who basically thinks self-publishing is a bad idea for the vast majority of authors. Because I disagree with so much of what she says–from the standpoint of authors who are truly self-published (and this is an important distinction!)–and wrote a lengthy comment to the post, I [...]
Sue Collier | January 5, 2010
As an editor and writing coach, I run across the same grammatical issues over and over again. With the help of a colleague (thanks, Jack!), I’ve assembled this “writing tutorial,” which addresses some of these. This information, presented in alphabetical order, should assist you in writing professional, clear, succinct, and grammatically correct books, articles, and [...]
Sue Collier | July 27, 2009
Your manuscript is finally written. You breathe a great sigh of relief. But hold on; you aren’t done yet. Use your spell-checker, grammar, and style checking program to catch obvious flaws and flag overly long sentences, for example.
You also may have learned to type on a typewriter and thus put two spaces at the end [...]