Lisa Tener’s Writing and Publishing Blog

Self-Publish or Traditionally Publish?

Beware: if you don’t answer this question when you begin writing your book, you may end up doing a good deal of extra work. That’s because authors who intend to self-publish can just write their book, but those who intend to traditionally publish need to write a book proposal first, particularly for a nonfiction book….

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Get Your Book Writing & Publishing Questions Answered

Join us on Blog Talk Radio’s Positive Living Network as host Patricia Raskin asks me all about how to write a book, getting started, organizing your book, getting published, avoiding blocks, getting inspired, what publishers and agents are looking for, and anything else you might be wondering about: Wednesday June 3 Noon Eastern Time Blog…

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Dressing for Your TV Interview? Chris Fulkerson’s 12 Top Tips

My first time on TV, no one told me not to wear busy designs with lots of color. I wore my most stunning spring suit and it danced around the screen hypnotically (and distractingly) when I appeared on ABC World News with Peter Jennings. Of course, I should have asked…or researched. Sigh. I was never…

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Ask the Writing Coach: In a Book Proposal, Do You List Unrelated Books & Articles?

Kathleen Burns Kingsbury asked how much information about previous publications to include in a book proposal. Specifically, she traditionally published a book called Weight Wisdom. Should she include information on this book in her book proposal? How about articles? She asks, “When you are writing a book proposal is it best to just list the…

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A Bestselling Author’s Take on Writing a Book Now

One of my clients recently spoke to a friend, the wife of a long-time New York Times bestselling author who brought up a new kink in the book writing business. This woman, an author in her own right, said that she knows of several authors with major publishers who lost their editor due to lay-offs…

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Write Yourself Free

Last week, I opened my mail and received this beautiful gem of a book, Maureen Daigle-Weaver’s Write Yourself Free: Conscious living and Personal Peace through the Power of the Pen. Maureen wrote her first draft in my 60 day book writing teleseminar and I got to “test” the Write Yourself Free process and experience its…

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