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How to Copyright a Book

Someone recently e-mailed me asking how he could copyright a book before it’s published. Technically, even in draft form, your book is copyrighted. Having their book stolen is one thing many novice writers worry about and yet it’s a rare occurrence. One of the best things you can do is not create a great deal…

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Robin Kall, host of Reading with Robin Shares How Writing Transformed Her Life

In preparation for my presentation, Express Yourself in Writing and Transform Your Life, I’ve been asking some writer friends how writing has transformed their lives. Robin Kall has kept a journal since third grade.  She says that she first thought that if she didn’t write every day she should just give up on the whole…

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How Many Sample Pages for a Proposal…and Which Chapters?

A client recently asked me to help him with a book proposal with very short chapters. Hmmm. I hadn’t worked on one of those before. Would the usual 1-2 chapters be enough? It seemed to me that agents would want more of a sample. But how much? I asked literary agent Jeanne Fredericks for guidance….

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Is Your Book a RISK? More Gems from the Harvard Course

As promised, here’s another important insight from the Harvard Medical School CME publishing course. I’ll share something Regina Brooks, from Serendipity Literary Agency shared with me. Over dinner at Stephanie’s on Newbury Street, Rusty Shelton, Regina and I discovered just how much we had in common when we all ordered the same thing on the…

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More from Harvard Course: Giving a Great Media Interview

Rusty Shelton and the publicists at Phenix & Phenix take a whole day to train new authors for their media interviews and publicity opportunities at the start of every campaign they run. At Harvard, he squeezed much of that media training know-how into an hour, focusing on how to give a great media interview. Tips included…

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Writing Your Book: From Stress to Success

Today’s post is interview style: I’m here with Laura Gwen, an inspirational speaker and an authority on universal laws, including the law of attraction.  Laura is kicking off Aspire Media’s Inspiring Speaker Series with her talk April 15: Stress is Optional: Success is a Choice, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick, RI. Of course,…

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