ideasparking If you’re going to get serious about stepping up your author marketing and platform-building strategies—whether pre-pubbed or pubbed—then the savvy thing to do is budget. Now I’m no Dave Ramsey, so this is not a post on the specifics of budgeting. Really, if you want hard core budget help, you should go to someone who is better at saving receipts than I am. BUT I have come up with a writing budget that works well for me, and as I’ve moved along on the road to publication, marketing has begun to take up a bigger chunk of that budget. Nothing astronomical, for sure, but it’s still good to plan for and track marketing expenses. As you consider your own marketing budget, here are some factors to take into consideration. […]
Read the RestArchive | May, 2013
My Book Therapy Short Story Winners announced in Splickety Magazine!
Splickety Magazine 1.4 By Splickety Magazine in Splickety Magazine 20 pages, published 5/6/2013 Check out our fourth issue of Splickety Magazine, a Special My Book Therapy Contest issue. Susan May Warren, founder of My Book Therapy and best-selling author of multiple novels, headlines this issue with a story that connects to her latest novel Take a Chance on Me. We’re also featuring a story by Best-selling author Rachel Hauck and the winner of My Book Therapy’s flash fiction contest–but you’ll have to read the issue to find out who it… Hey Friends! I’m so thrilled to announce that My Book Therapy has partnered with Splickety Magazine for a fun Short Story Contest! Inside this great issue, you’ll find the winners, plus some fun articles on writing short stories (and how […]
Read the RestMemorialize Your Accomplishments, Part One: First Encounters
When Lisa Jordan got her first book contract with Love Inspired, I got to go along for the ride. We talked and emailed back and forth sharing the adventure. We were also prayer partners. One day as I put fingers to keyboard, I felt the Lord leading me to pray that she would experience all the splendor of her very first time… at publishing. I realized that, even though she may publish hundreds of novels, she would NEVER again experience her first novel contract, launch, print. I meet with people every day of my career who look back over their lives wishing they’d taken more time to enjoy the journey. They were so focused on the end result, they don’t remember their first encounters. They rushed right by them with […]
Read the Rest10 Commandments for Writers by James Scott Bell
I’m on the road at the Romantic Times convention this week so I asked the wise and noble James Scott Bell if he’d fill in for me. He graciously accepted. Thanks Jim! 10 Commandments for Writers When I first started to teach writing in the late 90s, I jotted down what I thought should be the 10 Commandments for Writers. I looked at it again recently and thought, You know what? It still holds up. I’ve tweaked them a little bit, but they remain essentially the same. Here they are: 1. Thou Shalt write a certain number of words every week This is the first, and greatest, commandment. If you write to a quota and hold yourself to it, sooner than you think you’ll have a full length novel. (I […]
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