Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Let’s say you are scheduled to give a major message to a Colosseum-sized audience. A speaking coach offers to help you to put your best foot forward. Would you accept the offer?
I’m pretty sure you …
Book Cover Design
Book Cover Quiz–with Takeaway
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Buzzfeed put together a book cover quiz that is entitled, “The Hardest Book Cover Quiz You’ll Ever Take.” Not one easily daunted by a little challenge, I immediately set about taking the quiz.
One aspect of …
How to Make Your Book Cover Stand Out
Blogger: Janet Kobobel Grant
Here’s the good news for authors: Nowadays every book cover is face out…online.
Now the bad news: Every book cover is face out.
Most of us readers used to discover books in bookstores. I can recall …
It’s What You Don’t Know That Can Hurt You
Blogger: Mary Keeley
“We’d like to extend an offer on your book.” I don’t think those words will ever cease to thrill you, whether you are multi-published or this is your debut. Being prepared for what comes next will give …
How Your Manuscript Is Transformed into a Book
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Not too long ago, your manuscript could only take one path to becoming a book: print production. eBooks have revolutionized publishing, not to mention apps as a new way to deliver your message. But certain things in …
Broken Things: E-books
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Old New Castle, Delaware
E-books seem to have reached the tipping point. It’s all anyone’s been talking about lately. If you read our blog you know that I was a Kindle early-adopter. I’m crazy about my