Are book deadlines normally agreed between writer/s and publisher or imposed by publisher? And are there any consequences for missing them? Is there a way to negotiate deadlines that is mental health-friendly to the author? The deadlines are negotiated at contract stage in broad terms, meaning the contract states that the publisher will bring the
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Effect of Marketing
August blog prompts have arrived, so here we go. How much does marketing count at the release of a new book? I saw a tweet from another author which said “There is no such thing as “your book wouldn’t sell”. There is only “I don’t know how to sell your book”. There is a market
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Assigning Genre: Industry Insiders’ Perspective
Hi. Here’s a question that will hopefully not be too troublesome. When marketing a book do you or the publisher or bookseller decide if the book is a mystery, or romance or science fiction or fantasy?Reason I ask is that frequently I am in a bookstore or library, I find a book in the romance
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Books, Conventions, and Money
Is it worth participating in book festivals? I’m looking at going to one in another state. The cost for a table in Authors’ Alley is $110, and the festival is for one day. The last time it was held in person, attendance was around 9500 people. Maybe. Longer answer: it’s absolutely worth it if you
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Burning money in the digital age
Do you have any marketing and marketing routine advices? Em This comes at a really good time, as I am trying to figure out the benefits of social media vs the drawbacks. To quickly recap, marketing is “paid” promotion while publicity is “earned” promotion. More on that in this blog post. As an author, there
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S-Corp and Other Corps
I’m thinking of incorporating. What kind of corporation are you? I am going to give you a super valuable and totally awesome advice: talk to an accountant. I am not qualified to advise you on the type of corporation that’s best for you. Here is some background information for information purposes only. No matter what
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Advances: How they Work
Advances “So if a writer gets an advance and the book does not sell well do they have to repay part of the advance? Or does it affect future contracts – no contract / no advance etc.? Or it varies per the contract in place?” Short answer is no, advance doesn’t need to be paid
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Routine, Roles, and Friendship
How important is having a routine in writing? You seem very distraught whenever your routine is interrupted and I don’t know if it’s just because the deadlines or because it throws you off. Do you think you will ever retire from writing (not just publishing) or is it something your brain will always want to
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I Have the Power!
How much do you get to control when you’re self-publishing? And how much do you stick to in terms of “industry standards” because they are good/established marketing even if you don’t agree with? Book length, fonts, cover type,”purity” of tropes, PG rating etc? Do you always listen to your agent or pub team if they
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Pseudonyms
Do you have a list of book ideas somewhere that are very out of your usual genres or don’t have time for? Have you ever thought about starting over under a pseudonym? Yes, but probably not for the most obvious reason. 🙂 Let’s cover the more traditional uses for a pseudonym. From a publisher’s point
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Blood Heir Audio is Now Available
Audible | Amazon | Apple Books Yay! We are really pleased with how it turned out. Suzanne Freeman gave us a great performance. We hope you will enjoy it. The names are pronounced the way they are supposed to have been pronounced all along. If you are going to complain about the names, your comment
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The Balls… OMG
Anne in the comments mentioned that an entitled fan had made a mess of themselves on Nora Roberts blog. So I went to look. You’re looking for the commenter named Debra. She explained to Nora Roberts how publishing works. OMG, I can’t even. I can’t. New goal in life: Don’t be Debra.