What marketing can you reasonably expect from your publisher?

Once you’ve found a publisher, don’t think that the hard work is finished when your final edit ishanded in. The next (and probably most difficult) step is marketing and publicity – and don’t expect your publisher to do all of it (if any). Mass market publishers (such as Random House) will allocate a huge marketing [...]

Janel’s Writing Prompt & June’s Book Giveaway Details

I adore my Golden Retriever, Cooper. He is my writing buddy and almost constant companion. The drive-thru workers at the restaurant where I get my morning coffee know him by name even though they don’t know my name (other than “Cooper’s mom”). He often comes with me to pick my kids up from school. Many [...]

June Announcements & Updates

Welcome to June! Kim’s posts on how to make the most of a writer’s conference and how to pitch agents at writer’s conferences last month were awesome, but they reminded me of the fact that I a) do not have a polished manuscript at the ready and b) can therefore not rationalize going to (paying [...]

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