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Talking About Your Book: Guest Post From Tue Møller (T. M.) Stengaard

Tue Møller (T.M.) Stengaard

Møller

Today I’m turning the blog over to Tue Møller (T. M.) Stengaard, a writer from Denmark who has an interesting take on how to talk about your book.

(Note: I didn’t say “pitch” but “talk”—a distinction he explains in this delightful post!)

But first a bit about Tue: A Danish writer, he studied Literature, Culture and Language at Aalborg University and received his MA in 2009.

Currently, Tue is working on his first novel, investigating temptation and nature in...

Talking About Your Book: Guest Post From T. M. Stengaard

T.M. Stengaard

Today I’m turning the blog over to T. M. Stengaard, a writer from Denmark who has an interesting take on how to talk about your book.

(Note: I didn’t say “pitch” but “talk”—a distinction he explains in this delightful post!)

But first a bit about T. M.: A Danish writer, he studied Literature, Culture and Language at Aalborg University and received his MA in 2009.

Currently, T. M. is working on his first novel, investigating temptation and nature in a society on the verge of ind...

Selling Your Book To Libraries: 5 Tips From Book Marketing Expert Fern Reiss

Authors can’t sit back and wait for readers to show up, clamoring to buy their latest work. And authors also can’t hope that book buyers will troll through catalogs and press releases and decide they absolutely have to stock that latest title in their store.

No, authors (and by “authors” I mean myself as well as the rest of you!) have to take the initiative and do whatever it takes to drum up sales. We need to find new market, mine existing ones and never stop reaching out and connecting.

For...

Selling your book to libraries: 5 tips from book marketing expert Fern Reiss

Authors can’t sit back and wait for readers to show up, clamoring to buy their latest work. And authors also can’t hope that book buyers will troll through catalogs and press releases and decide they absolutely have to stock that latest title in their store.

No, authors (and by “authors” I mean myself as well as the rest of you!) have to take the initiative and do whatever it takes to drum up sales. We need to find new market, mine existing ones and never stop reaching out and connecting.

For...

Three Tips To Help You Juggle All Those Writing “Balls”

One of my recent posts at The Writer’s Place, 5 Tips for Dealing with “Work-in-Progress” Woes, led indirectly to a comment on another site about how hard it was to stay on top of multiple writing projects to keep them moving forward.

There are so many obstacles to the progress, especially if the projects in question aren’t those required for a client, editor or publisher—what I call “work writing”—but rather are ones that we want to complete because they matter to us.

Two big obstacles—at lea...

5 Tips for Dealing with “Work-in-Progress” Woes

There are few things more frustrating to a writer than getting part way into a project and hitting the wall. (The other issues are not being able to find a way to start the project and not being able to satisfactorily bring it to a close!)

I call this the “Work-in-Progress” Woes—you are either facing a complete shut down or the going is so hard and slow that you feel like you are writing through metaphorical molasses.

As a matter of fact, this post was inspired by my own experience with this,...

Want to be a guest on my blog? Here are some tips!

As anyone knows who follows my blogs — One on One, The Writer’s Place and Focus on Fiction — I regularly interview authors and writers as well as run guest posts on the subject of writing. I appreciate the willingness of those in the business of writing to share their experiences and truly value their comments and insights.

And I have a very warm spot in my working writer heart for those who take the time to follow what few requests I have, since my ultimate goal is to make your interview or...

Out-of-the-box book marketing tips: Guest post from author Christine Benedict

When Christine and I met in person at the Indie Author Conference & Showcase hosted by Cuyahoga County Public Library, the first thing I noticed was the gold star label on her book, Anonymous.

She told me she did it herself using an embosser and blank gold labels, and then proceeded to share other strategies she has used to successfully sell her first novel. (Who says authors aren’t generous?)

I took notes like mad, and then begged her to write a guest post for The Writer’s Place because I kn...

Internet Book Piracy–What to do: Guest post from Gini Graham Scott, PhD

So it happened again. You had set up a Google Alert with your name and your book title, and one morning, an alert pops up in your inbox. Except when you click on the link, it takes you to a site where the book is available for free or someone else is claiming credit for it.

If this hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. Trust me.

Both my books—THE GIFTS OF CHANGE and TRAVELING LEFT OF CENTER AND OTHER STORIES—have fallen victim to book piracy, which is why reading this guest post by Gini Graha...

Celebrating Organize Your Home Office Day with guest post from Lisa Kanarek

Since today is National Organize Your Home Office Day, I thought it appropriate to ask Lisa Kanarek, who created the event, for some tips on how to make our home offices more inspiring and less, well, cluttered, cramped and darned right uncomfortable!

And this is definitely an area of expertise for Lisa. Her website, WorkingNaked.com, is chock full of ideas for making that home office work for you—not against you! In this guest post, she provides strategies for having the kind of home office t...