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Are you ready to Pitch your novel? A 7 question LITMUS test!

By on August 18, 2014 in 3. Publish your Story, 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, Encourage Me!, How do I Pitch my Book?, How do I Promote my book?, How do I write a Synopsis?, Writing Conferences

Are you ready to pitch your story? With the ACFW Conference just a month away, many authors are polishing their pitches, proposals and pitch sheets. But…are they truly ready to pitch?  The fact is, you only get one shot to pitch your story to a particular editor/agent. Here’s a quick litmus test to see if you’re ready to pitch your novel: 1. Is your novel finished?  First time novelists should have their novel completed before they pitch for two reasons. It tells the editor/agent that YES, you can finish a novel.  And then, when you pitch an entire series of 3 novels, they have the confidence you can fnished #2 and #3. It helps you understand the true external pitch of your story (and the internal storyquestion). Sometimes it takes […]

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How to sell that NaNoWriMo project!

By on November 25, 2013 in 3. Publish your Story, 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, 7. Search by Author:, Delivering Convincing Proposals, Encourage Me!, How do I Pitch my Book?, How do I Promote my book?, How do I write a Synopsis?, Learn the art of Social Networking, Susan May Warren, Writing Conferences
I am so excited about this product – it’s been months (okay, years!) in the making, but I’ve taken everything I know about selling novels (and I’ve sold 40 of my own, not to mention helped countless others with their proposal projects) and put them in this step-by-step, 8 lesson video/audio series, complete with writable PDF handouts for you to fill out on your computer.
And examples from my own files.
And an easy method for writing that dreaded synopsis. And even a template for the marketing part of your proposal (the yikes! part). It’s like a proposal paint-by-numbers!
And, oh yeah, an optional workbook for those who like to scribble out their ideas by hand.
Frankly, it’s everything just short of me coming to your living room and looking your shoulder while you put your proposal together. And probably you wouldn’t like that anyway, because I get hungry and I’d humbly ask for hot cocoa. And popcorn.
This is a popcorn free product. But pretty much everything else is included.
AND…during the month of November (NaNoWriMo!_
we have 3 Novel Proposal deals!
  • Deal #1: First…from TODAY until December 1st, get $20 OFF – yep!, that’s nearly 30% OFF the regular price! JUST Enter: WRIMODEAL in your coupon code.
  • Deal #2: During this special only, get the Novel Proposal Workbook at 25% off the cover price!

And that’s not all.

  • Deal #3: We want your story to be epic! So, our epic Novel Proposal sale comes comes with the FREE audio/video class:
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The Truth about Conferences? Really?

By on August 28, 2012 in 3. Publish your Story, 4. Writer’s Life, Inspiration and Life Coaching, 5. MBT Interviews and Events, Encourage Me!, How do I Pitch my Book?, How do I Promote my book?, Learn the art of Social Networking, Quick Skills, Susan May Warren, Writing Conferences

  Are you ready to attend a writer’s conference? The reality is, if you want to be published – and stay published – you need to attend Writer’s Conferences. But you shouldn’t attend unprepared. This is why the mulit-published, award-winning novelists and conference coordinators on the My Book Therapy staff wrote: The Truth about Conferences: the MBT guide to how to have a successful writers conference. Writers conferences are overwhelming. But when you prepare yourself, they can also change your life. To celebrate this book – and to give you some tips and tricks – we’re having a Truth about Conferences Webinar on Thursday night, 7pm CST on our MBT Open House channel. To join us, and to get a free excerpt, LIKE our Facebook page (the excerpt and registration […]

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