Hi there, FFF'ers!

I'm doing a series this week on my blog about book publicity. Melissa suggested it might be of interest to the community, so I cross post it here:

(yesterday’s pragmatic overview neep is right hereBook publicity is complicated, so today’s neep unpacks some technical terms. Involved in the process on the publisher’s side ( Read more... )

(X-posted ( Read more... )

A watcher emailed these questions in, and since there are a few FFF members with pen names (and maybe more than I'm aware of), I thought it made for an interesting discussion. So, here are the questions ( Read more... )

I posted these opinions on The Midnight Hour last summer and the responses were very interesting. Someone here at FFF asked about whether or not to have a website before being published, and another person mentioned editors & agents surfing the net. I thought everyone at FFF might be interested in reading the opions of some of the top editors and ( Read more... )

[Cross-posted from my blog]

If you’re an aspiring author, or an author looking for representation, or an author who just landed an agent and your work is now on submission with editors, or an author who’s already published, chances are you know about Preditors & Editors. (Yes, kids. “Preditors,” not “Predators.” The misspelling is intentional.) If ( Read more... )

So the other day I was on the phone with my agent, and we were discussing blogging and silly things that people do in their blogs.

"An author should never ever ever mention rejections in their blog," he said to me. "Because agents and editors like to websurf too."

And while I've heard this tidbit of advice before, that was the first time it's ever ( Read more... )

Cross posted from my personal journal.

And so I come to the end of my little blogging brainstorm here-promo and sales, along with answering a few reader questions.  And then I'm taking a little blogging break for a few days.  I'll be posting all my writing blogs, etc., on my site soon, by the way, so people will have access to them later on.  I'm ( Read more... )

Part Two--Xposted from my personal journal....

So your book is on the shelves.  Let's talk about promotion and sales!  Advances and royalties!  Only not in that order.  Once I got into advances and royalties, it threatened to turn into a runaway freight train, so there will be a Part 3 to this blog tomorrow to finish up with promo and sales, along ( Read more... )

 X-posted from my personal journal:

You're sitting there, stunned.  You just got 'the call'…the call from your agent or an editor-they want to publish your book!  Visions of bestseller lists, megamoney, and fame and fortune run through your head.  Oh, you can feel that Caribbean Island sunshine beaming down on you right now!

Wake up, come on, time to ( Read more... )

Many of your websites are listed on the giant chart.   Some are missing.  Will you share them ( Read more... )