Lisa Tener
Book Writing Coach
Thanks to all our great entrants to the Pitch Your Book to Life Contest. Today, I’m providing feedback on 11 more pitches that prompted some ideas on my end. I’ll be posting more in the next few days, so if you don’t see yours here, don’t worry. Public voting begins April 13 and you’ll have…
We’re so excited about the great books being pitched in the Pitch Your Book to Life Contest. Today, I’m providing feedback on 10 pitches that instantly prompted some ideas on my end. I’ll be posting 10 more in the next couple days, so if you don’t see yours here, don’t worry. There are plenty more…
Everybody loves a contest. For writers and authors, winning a contest can help get the attention of the right agent or acquisitions editor, or add cache to your book proposal. And, yes, there are the prizes and the great fun of winning. Authors also find that taking that step of declaring their book to the…
As I go over my notes for “Writing for Your Reader: How to Write a Smart, Compelling, Enlightening Page Turner,” a workshop I’ll be delivering Saturday, along with Martha Murphy, as part of Harvard Medical School’s CME Publishing Course, I’m getting excited. The 3-day course is always filled with exciting book ideas, brilliant physicians and…
Robin Kall, host of the hit radio show, Reading with Robin, on the air on WHJJ for just shy of ten years, has hosted dozens of successful author events. She’s interviewed authors Jennifer Wiener, Jodi Picoult, Alice Hoffman, Tom Perrotta, Jane Green and Ann Hood, as well as nonfiction authors (with FUN themes, she points…
During a consultation with a newly enrolled Bring Your Book to Life participant, Ariel shyly admitted that she was a bit afraid I might give her a hard time for not getting started on the course materials before our session. After all, she’d been beating herself up for days. Wouldn’t I do the same? Ariel…
