Lisa Tener’s Writing and Publishing Blog

Perseverance: An Author’s Best Friend

It’s always a thrill when my clients’ books come out and I get that brown cardboard package from Amazon. When Deb Scott finally announced that her book was here, though, I found it especially fulfilling. Deb had some huge setbacks in her process…making her a great example for the role or perseverance in the life…

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Help, Someone Already Wrote My Book

My Bring Your Book to Life students are preparing for the start of book writing class next month. They’re researching their markets, creating the vision for the their books, and starting to outline. Some are calling me for their book concept consultation. I love the consultations as we brainstorm to take good ideas and make…

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How to Get Competitive Books’ Sales Figures

If you’re writing a book proposal, one important number to obtain is the number of books sold for any competitive or complementary books you plan to compare with yours. Here’s a Book Proposal Secret: For the most part, you want to compare your book to bestsellers and backlist books (books that have been in print…

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Who’s on Your Team?

I recently read Open, Andre Agassi’s autobiography. It’s a great read and I was also struck by how dependent he was on the people on his team. I think that’s true about most successful people–they don’t do it alone. They have great coaches, managers, trainers, strategists, advisers, mentors… Who are the people on a writer’s…

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Celebrate Your Accomplishments

My very first coach, Wendy Keilin, taught me to end the year by celebrating the year’s accomplishments. It’s so easy to look ahead and make some crazy list of the 5 million things you plan to accomplish in 2010. You can do that. Just, first, take a deep breath and enjoy all the gifts of…

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Distractions and Interruptions

I’m preparing for my interview with Joe Carroccio tomorrow (Monday, December 21) on his program The Law of Distraction and Interruption. It’s got me thinking about what keeps people from writing their books (myself included): Interruptions like phone calls, e-mails, other people’s needs which we may put before our own. Distractions like all the other…

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