Last week I reviewed Hold Tight by Harlan Coben on my other blog.
This weekend, I was re-reading my Authors Guild Bulletin and came across part of an interview with thriller writer Coben whose 18 books include 9 featuring Myron Bolitar as protagonist.
In the interview, Mr. Coben held forth on what is needed to make a [...]
Tags: harlan coben, hold tight, novelists, professional writers, thriller writer, Writing
Posted by Joan Reeves on Oct 15, 2009 in
Consumer Smarts,
Pop Culture,
Technology,
Writing Biz Over this last year, I’ve noticed the growth in freelance writer job postings or Demand Studios. I’ve not written for them, but I’ve been interested in knowing more about them. However, reading their job listings left me with the uneasy feeling that they were just another writer mill designed to make writers grind out words [...]
Tags: angela hoy, demand studios, erik sherman, freelance writers, writers weekly, Writing
Published authors bemoan the lack of promotion support from their publishers. This situation is even more dire for self-published authors who want to sell more than a few copies to friends. Since a lot of you who visit Joan Slings Words aren’t professional writers who have nonetheless published a book, I thought I’d give them [...]
Tags: book promotion, book publicity, business of writing, publishing, self publishing, Writing
Posted by Joan Reeves on Sep 10, 2009 in
Technology,
Writing Biz Every selling writer must be a business person also. Enter the agent.
Gone are the days when authors huddled in cold garrets and penned their masterpieces which they in turn gave to gentlemen publishers, trusting that they would be compensated in a fair manner. Some were. Some weren’t. Some were taken advantage of.
Today, the smart writer [...]
Tags: Agents, Books, business_of_writing, literary_agents, publishing, Writing
Posted by Joan Reeves on Sep 6, 2009 in
This Writer's Life,
Writing Biz I judge a lot of writing contests every year. Why? It’s a way to help a writer who may be struggling with that whole “can I write or am I fooling myself” complex from which all of us seem to suffer. My heart goes out to people like this because I’m one of them too [...]
Tags: business of writing, craft of writing, Writing, writing contests
I’d never really investigated those sites that want you to fill their coffers with articles for which they will pay you so much per page view, that is, each time your article is viewed.
Thanks, Angela Hoy
Then Angela Hoy of Booklocker and Writers Weekly did an examination of The Examiner, and I realized I needed to [...]
Tags: Blogging, business of writing, content sites, Internet, pay per page view, Writing, writing business
A lot of people want to start blogs, but they’ve heard that you must publish every day in order to attract an audience. This is great if you’re a pro writer like me, but what if you’re an ordinary person with ideas to share but you haven’t written anything on a daily basis since English [...]
Tags: Blogging, Internet Dynamics, Internet Success, Writing
The first half of the year is over. Here’s what people are buying at the book stores. Here are the top 10 sellers at two different retailers.
Barnes and Noble
1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Hardcover)
2. Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer (Hardcover)
3. Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin [...]
Tags: amazon, barnes_and_noble, bestselling_books, Books, writers, Writing
If you’ve been looking for the next chapter of my romantic comedy The Trouble With Love, it should now be posted on Romantic4ever.com.
Through Chapter 4
Both the publisher and I have had real life interfering with our work. So I barely wrote more than blog posts in July, and she delayed the new chapter that was [...]
Tags: book, romance_novel, romantic4ever.com, romantic_comedy, serial_novel, the_trouble_with_love, Writing
Romance Writers of America announced the RITA® winners in late July at their national conference in Washington D. C. The RITA® awards are the Oscars for published authors of romance fiction.
Background
As stated on the RWA website, “the purpose of the RITA® contest is to promote excellence in the romance genre by recognizing outstanding [...]
Tags: authors, Books, rita_award, romance_fiction, romance_writers_of_america, rwa, writiers, Writing
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