Today a new service joins the Book Coaching portfolio--Blurb and Summary Coaching. It's designed to give authors feedback on their blurbs (the paragraph or two that goes on the back cover) or their full page summaries (used primarily for agents and publishers), and for this month, both services will be half off. So if your … Continue reading Introducing Blurb and Summary Coaching!
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We can't go into "cute dog" mode to get people to like our novel. We can't just cock our head and cast a pleading, expressive glance at the people involved--whether to solicit an agent or a book reviewer. So what do we do? We write query letters...which may be one of the unavoidable, least fun … Continue reading Query Letters #atozchallenge #writer
Having recently stumbled upon two excellent blogs—Kyra Nelson’s, in which we get to read queries with comments from an intern who works for an agency, and Kristen Nelson’s, where a “very nice literary agent” politely rants about “Queries, Writers, and the Publishing Industry,” I started wondering: is there a difference between the description of a … Continue reading The Difference between Queries and Blurbs?
Having recently released “But Kisses Never Hurt Me” as a self-published book, I have been thinking a good deal about the independence this supposedly has granted me. It has, assuredly, allowed me to keep all the rights to the novella and given me freedom to do everything myself, but in that freedom, I find a … Continue reading On Self-Publishing: Thoughts and Reflections
Andrea Lundgren 