Suppose you have a book, a novel, or a piece of nonfiction you think has commercial appeal. You know it will sell. For some reason, you just know you’ve touched a nerve and you think many people will want to read your work. If it’s fiction, you think it is … Read More
Writers often have big dreams. They imagine that their work will be published and will take off, go viral, make them rich and famous, or at least famous. But can this miracle happen with self-published works? Well, sometimes. It is true that formally published works, run through an agent, accepted … Read More
When I decided to publish my memoir, Dear Oprah: How I Beat Cancer and Learned to Love Daytime TV, I sent the manuscript to a few agents who expressed interest. But many of them said a book on cancer would be a tough sell. And even if the book got … Read More
When you first start the program known as NaNoWriMo, you may think 30 days is a long time. You may think writing 50,000 words in that amount of time is doable. After all, that’s only 1,666.667 words per day. Maybe you’re already writing 2,000 words per day now. Good for you, … Read More
