http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Sophfronia+Scott Writing Sophfronia Scott Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=290818&ca=Writing I recently spoke to an entrepreneur interested in working with me to help her complete a manuscript she'd been trying to finish for several months. She had some concern about the length, as all new writers do, and she told me it was about 120 pages. I thought that didn't sound like a lot - but page... Business Sophfronia Scott Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=290815&ca=Business It's sort of like that chicken or the egg question: which do you work on first, your book or your business? Should you write a book first and then develop a business when you start attracting attention? Or should you build your business up first and then write a book as the biggest, tastiest piece o... Writing Sophfronia Scott Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=224326&ca=Writing 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. Too many self-published authors get caught up in trying to figure out how to get distribution which will get the... Writing Sophfronia Scott Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=218410&ca=Writing I have finishing on the brain these days. I just finished a large project with another close to completion. I'm also working on urging clients to finish reviewing and editing their own manuscripts so they can move on to the publishing process. But I reached a new level of thinking about this while l... Writing Sophfronia Scott Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=205697&ca=Writing Americans are reading less. That's the conclusion of a recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts. It's a follow up to an NEA survey that found an increasing number of adult Americans were not even reading one book a year. This information can be depressing, especially if you've been spendi... Writing Sophfronia Scott Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=201045&ca=Writing 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. I was curious to know more about her book so I checked... Writing Sophfronia Scott Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202358&ca=Writing 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. But these days, especially in the book business, having a smart website is a necessity. The site has to do many things: get you known, get your subject known, get peopl... Writing Sophfronia Scott Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=191646&ca=Writing What's the biggest fear of a self-published author? Having a garage or basement chock full of unsold books. These days, of course, print-on-demand keeps that from actually happening--there's no reason to print up thousands of copies in advance, but the spectre still exists in the mind's eye: "What i... Writing Sophfronia Scott Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=143464&ca=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. It's an amalgam of all you have experienced, felt, touched and smelled. You are drawing on the well of your life experience. Notes choreographer Twyla Tharp in her... Writing Sophfronia Scott Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=131329&ca=Writing 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. I said, "Nothing!", but the answer didn't make sense to her. She didn't understand why I didn't have to...