Lisa Tener’s Writing and Publishing Blog

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Find articles on your most pressing writing & publishing questions. Plus, creative support for your inner muse!

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Stuck? Uncertain? Meet Your Muse.

Meet Your Muse For years now, I’ve been taking my clients and students in my book writing classes on a journey to meet their muse. I think of your muse as a creative aspect of yourself. It may seem like it comes from deep within you or it may seem to come from a place…

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Writer’s Block? Your Reader Can Help You.

Writer’s block doesn’t have to keep you stuck. Our emerging authors are on a roll. Several people reported–in Bring Your Book to Life class Wednesday and this morning–that they’ve written several chapters in this week alone–one wrote four! 3 Writing Secrets to Get Unstuck Here are a few writing secrets that worked for them to…

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How to Choose a Literary Agent: 10 Questions to Ask a Literary Agent

Note: This post on how to choose a literary agent and questions to ask a literary agent has been updated for 2022. In my last post, I shared the story of a client who just got a call from a top literary agent who wanted to represent him and his book. Now, he needed to…

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How to Get a Literary Agent: The 3 P’s to Get Published

Yesterday evening, in the midst of making chicken soup for dinner, I got a call from a book coaching client to tell me that a top literary agent had called him to say she wants to represent his book. Despite the pandemonium (one son wanted help with his knight costume and the other begged to…

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How to Make the Most of VIP Encounters (Hint: Social Media)

One of my Bring Your Book to Life students e-mailed me to say that she would be meeting a VIP in the medical world in a few short weeks at a networking luncheon through her husband’s business. She asked how to best approach him. A foreword or even a blurb from him would be a…

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The Publishing Process: An Interview with Successfully Published Author Jeffrey Hull

Shortly before my second son was born, I worked with Executive Coach Jeffrey Hull on his book concept, helped him think through whether to self-publish or traditionally publish and provided feedback on his writing. When my second son came along, immersed in mommying, I referred Jeff to a colleague, Lisa Sussman, to help him with…

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