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You are so beautiful to me
Filed under: Authors and Books, Marketing Yourself
There are days when I get inundated with photos. I open submission after submission and they fall out, showing me stunning author after stunning author.
Nice as it is to put a face to the work, it’s really not necessary. Very few readers will judge a book by the author photo – it’s all about the writing. The one exception to this might be Read more
Book now, and claim your discount!
We’ve got two great events for writers coming up, and if you book by the end of tomorrow, 30 April, you will get an amazingly good deal as you can claim your early-bird discount!
For all writers who are starting out we have our How to Get Published conference, which is a one-day event packed with Read more
Playing by different rules: non-fiction writing
A guest post from literary agent Judy Chilcote:
I wanted to explain that the rules are different for when I decide to take on a non-fiction project than they are for fiction.
For fiction, it’s largely down to personal taste and interest, I think. In non-fiction, it’s more clear-cut to determine if there is a niche for a subject, if the market is over-saturated (as with most mind/body/spirit subjects at the moment) and if it has something new or Read more
Jargon buster: what is an MTA?
Filed under: Authors and Books
Over the past few weeks I’ve started a series of posts helping to demystify the jargon of publishing. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like jargon to me, but when you’re starting out who’s there to explain what an MS or MSS is, or even what PLR is all about (actually, that one definitely is worth knowing about as it could earn you precious pounds in years to come).
Anyway, next up is MTA, which stands for Minimum Terms Agreement. Read more
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