Last week we talked about fool’s gold and not being attracted to bright, shiny objects. Today we’re going to journey in the opposite direction because I coach individuals all the time who fall into this trap. It goes something like this: You spend nights and weekends at the keyboard pouring your best efforts into creating the manuscript you just know will be a New York Times Best Seller. You save your pennies to register for a writer’s conference and practice your elevator speech until you recite it in your sleep. An agent and editor both want to see the manuscript so you run back to your hotel room you couldn’t afford and press the “send” button. Then you wait. You don’t want to leave your room to attend the workshop […]
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Featured Fiction Friday with Sandra D. Bricker
The Frasier Entries are in! Now all we can do is sit down, cuddle up with our bags of popcorn, and wait for the results. In the meantime though, My Book Therapy will spend Fridays introducing you to the work of our all-powerful judges. This week we are pleased to introduce you to Sandra D. Bricker and her new book: Always the Designer, Never the Bride (Book 3 of 4) – Abingdon Press. Q: Tell us about your Book. A: Always the Designer Never the Bride is Book #3 of 4 in the popular series that started with Always the Baker, Never the Bride: No matter how busy she is, dress designer Audrey Regan can’t say no to her friend Carly when she asks her to be maid of honor—and create the perfect […]
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One Thing Marketing … How NOT to promote yourself on Facebook
Audra from Litfuse here. This week’s One Thing Marketing will focus on what NOT to do on your social media sites – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and blogs. All are great places that you should take advantage of when promoting your book. However, each has its own purpose and should be used in a way to maximize its benefits. There’s a right way and a wrong way to use each. The most popular of these tools is Facebook. Sometimes the best way to explain what you should do is to give examples of what you should not do. So, I’ll share a few tips for what not to do in promoting your book on Facebook. All of these are real examples that I have sadly seen done (the names have […]
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Fast Notes On Why Characters Matter
Hey all, I’m on a deadline but didn’t want to ask our handy-dandy David, assistant extraordinaire, to repurpose another old blog for me so, I found some notes I’d taken during a Donald Maass seminar and thought I’d pass them onto you. Nothing earth shattering here. Nothing we’ve not talked about already here in MBT Land but it’s good to be reminded. I sometimes like bullet points, don’t you? Or maybe an esoteric, eclectic gathering of ideas and thoughts that might jog a creative, off-the-beaten-path part of my brain. If we’re too linear, too sequential, we run the same worn path of our creative brain and forget their might be other less traveled paths to take and just might lead us to something extraordinary. So here’s my non-sequential, out-of-context, come […]
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