Lisa Tener’s Writing and Publishing Blog

Authors Need to Social Network; Try a Few Apps

As an author or aspiring author, you need to use social networks to help create your platform and, eventually, promote and sell your books. Yet, social networks can eat hours or days of your time with little impact. This is because social networks aren’t generally built in a day. If your social network is going…

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Can You Work on Two Books at Once? Is it Wise?

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They’re Getting Book Deals: Find Out How

I’m going to out and out brag here. July is shaping up to be an exciting month for my clients and we’re celebrating. Want to hear their secrets of success? First, here’s the good news. In July alone: – Three of my clients signed contracts and/or received offers from publishers for their books. – Two…

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How Do You Make a Creative Environment?

Having worked with a handful of talented feng shui practitioners as clients, I’ve learned the importance of our surroundings in supporting our creativity. Working with them helped me realized I wanted to be more intentional about making my creative environment more inspiring to my muse. Until recently, I kept a bulletin board behind and above…

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Be Accountable: A Key to Writing Consistently

What to do when your writing loses momentum? Trap yourself. If you’re not accountable to anyone to get your writing done, it’s easy to get off track. Often, all it takes is being accountable to someone to get back in the game and write again. Teaching a class has been great for me. Every week…

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Engage Your Fans

In this interconnected world, we’re seeing that authors who engage their readers and create a sense of community can achieve great success, like the phenomenal success of Twilight, due partly to a huge Facebook and social networking fan base. As you know, my focus as a writing coach is on adult nonfiction. While the ideas…

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