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Which Comes First, Your Book or Your Business?
It's sort of like that chicken or the egg question: which do you work on first, your book or your business...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Business
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A Quick Guide To Marketing Your Book On The Internet
Selling your book will be ten times easier as soon as you can accept this one, think-out-of-the-box strategy: your book doesn't have to be inside a bricks-and-mortar store to sell copies...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Really Finish Your Book
I have finishing on the brain these days I just finished a large project with another close to completion...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Book Marketing: When The Stats Don't Apply To You
Americans are reading less That's the conclusion of a recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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The Rise Of Self Publishing
Our local newspaper recently featured an area Realtor on the cover of its magazine supplement It was a large story including a photo of the woman on the top of the newspaper's front page teasing the story and referring to her as a book author...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Creating Your Writer's Presence On The Web
A few years ago having a website was a nice little feature to have for your business or to keep your family and friends up to date...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Write A Book They'll Want
What's the biggest fear of a self-published author Having a garage or basement chock full of unsold books...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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What Goes In Is What Comes Out In Your Writing
Think about this: when you're at your desk working, what you're writing is not just what's coming out of your head at that given moment...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Getting Published: When To Pay And When You Don't
How much should you pay to get your book published I know this question is confusing because I once led a teleclass where a student asked me four times how much I paid to get my novel published...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Cultivate A Good Habit
It happens every year and still it takes me by surprise--the conclusion of the Tour de France I wake up the morning after and feel the distinct void of having no reason to turn on the television...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Self Help
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Comments & Criticism: What To Do With Them
As you progress with your book project and begin to discuss it with others who may or may not have read pages from your manuscript, you'll surely get comments or criticism on your plot, characters, writing style, etc...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Make Money With Your Book
Writing, publishing and marketing a book can be a tremendous investment of time and money--so much so that many aspiring authors won't embark on the journey until it's clear they will get something (preferably dollars) out of it...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Advice
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Your Next Big Idea: Where You'll Find It
I've been traveling for the holidays and most recently I visited with family in Ohio At one crowded gathering my 9-year-old nephew Bryan, who has already been recognized in the local press for his writing talents, pulled me aside and said, "Aunt Sophfronia, I haven't been writing...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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The Sound Of Your Book
In his Entertainment Weekly column Stephen King recently extolled the virtues of the audiobook I agreed with his take, especially the stressing that most writing is, after all, about story-TELLING...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Stand Up For Your Story
On a recent flight to Los Angeles I sat next to a businessman who described his wife's love of writing...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Keeping Ideas Alive
When I was writing my first novel there came a moment when I found another idea for a book It was in a story I'd read in The New York Times about a Japanese family...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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The Power Of The Press Release
Last week I had an experience with press releases that totally blew me away My husband, a middle school teacher who also happens to be a musician premiering in an Off-Broadway show (http://www...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Marketing
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Pitching To The News
Okay, Floyd Landis just won the Tour de France Now your race is just beginning: Ready...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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To Be Or Not To Be... Self-Published
I've heard a lot about what writers have to say about the publishing process--and many are disappointed...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Choose The Best Agent For You
Recently I've had a few writers seek me out for consultation because they were dealing with the fortunate mishap of having more than one agent interested in their work...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Anthologies: Your Shortcut To Getting Published
What do you get when you mix a handful of writers, a hot topic and a snazzy title You get an anthology--and one of the more popular form of books being published today...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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How To Structure Your Non-Fiction Book
You have a non-fiction book in mind You know it's going to be great and it'll help a lot of people...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Writing A Fast First Draft
When my work is going too slowly I know exactly what the problem is: my internal editor is switched "on", and I'm trying to write too perfectly...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Secrets Of BookExpo America 2006
Here's what I've discovered in perusing the coverage of this year's BookExpo America: all is NOT doom and gloom in the publishing industry...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Developing Your Writing Habit
I had my first book and my first baby in the same year Not great planning, I know, but it just turned out that way...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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When The Writing Gets Tough
Recently I was the guest "speaker" in a chatroom discussion at WritersChatroomcom and we talked a bit about why it's important to be clear about why you're writing...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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When Does Genre Matter?
Thinking about genre is one of those places where writers can get stuck They don't submit their manuscripts, or worse, they don't finish them because they feel the story "just doesn't fit" with any particular genre...
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How To Build Your Author's Platform From Scratch
Platform These days it's the magic word in publishing...
Author: Sophfronia Scott - Category: Writing
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Building A Rock Solid Query Letter
Recently I reviewed a client's query letter It was a hard working query letter, detailing the marketing prospects for the book, her own glowing credentials and the contacts she possessed that would help her publicize the book...
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What You Can Learn From Dr. Phil About Writing Non-Fiction Books
Even if your career doesn't involve being a full-time writer, being the author of a book can be a huge boon for you...
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