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Authors Tales

Is it a book? Is it a …?

Writing and publishing a book is the most amazing process – not just for the pride it gives you as an author but for all the doors it opens as a result.
If I hadn’t written those 33 stanzas in 100 Years of Ermintrude back in 2006, I simply wouldn’t be doing what I am doing now. [...]

Resources

Seven Essentials for Finishing Your Book

I’ve just got completed and sorted out the publication of my second book this year.
I thought it would be a good idea to pause and reflect of how I did it – especially when I am thinking of writing at least one other before the end of 2010 !!

In working with other authors who are either [...]

Creativity

The Book You Were Born to Write

It’s a cliché I know but it’s said there’s a book inside everyone. In my experience, once the first one comes out, a veritable flood ensues and there is no stopping a writer.

This particular Bookwright specialises in the “book” of the author’s life with the printed (or ebook) being a kind of by-product. In turn, this [...]

Writers' Block

Dealing with rejection

The stories of multiple rejection letters abound so much that it has become a stereotype that this is the norm for the publishing industry.

It really doesn’t have to be the case. Certainly for non-fiction, if you research your publisher, there is no reason you can’t submit one manuscript and get one “Yes”.

If you are really canny, [...]

Publishing

Stairway to Publishing Heaven

Publishing a book is journey. Much like climbing Everest .. or simply going on holiday.

With some planning, the right mind set and the wind behind you and not against you, the journey to publishing heaven can become an enjoyable and calculated process.

Step 1: become lucky
Getting a book in print, publicised and read by the right people [...]

Writers' Block

Authors’ Block

And why it’s different from writer’s block

When you get asked the same thing three times in the same month, you know it’s time to blog about it.

Last month, three different authors came to me with the same tale of woe. Either a publisher had not delivered what they said they would or had let them down [...]