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5 Things You Should Know About Becoming a Published Author by Shobhan Bantwal

5 Things You Should Know About Becoming a Published Author

by Shobhan Bantwal

1. The path that takes one from aspiring author to published author is a tough one to navigate. Until a writer actually steps on to it, she is not likely to know the challenging journey that she is about to undertake.

2. In the world of traditional publishing, unlike vanity publishing, an author generally needs to sign on with a reputable literary agent first. Most established publishing companies...

Get to Know My Book: The Human Spirit by Carole Eglash-Kosoff – Part II

Today we are honored to be hosting Carole Eglash-Kosoff on her virtual book tour this month with the 2nd installment of her 3 day Get to Know My Book series of book excerpts. Get to Know My Book is an ongoing feature between blogs where we post excerpts of an author's book so that you can get to know the book better, one blog at a time.

Carole Eglash-Kosoff lives and writes in Valley Village, California. She graduated from UCLA and spent her career in business and in...

5 Things You Should Know About My Heart Stopped Beating

5 Things You Should Know About My Heart Stopped Beating

By Chamed

1. I wrote it in the hope that the readers could better understand mental health patients and those who suffer. I wanted to show that many practices in the mental health sector, such as electroshock, are not cures nor therapies, but human right abuses which pave the way for even worse abuses.

2. There is a book trailer, it features paintings that are my own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYhOBmDJkdU

3. I have...

How to Sell A Lot of E-Books by Vincent Zandri

For those of you who are not familiar with Vincent Zandri, I have to tell you this guy knows how to sell ebooks.  Not just a few, but thousands.  So it brings me great pleasure to have him here with us today at Literarily Speaking talking about what he does best.  ;o)

How to Sell A Lot of E-Books

by Vincent Zandri

A friend of mine who is a published author and great writer just emailed me about what it takes to sell a lot of books. E-Books in particular or so I'm assuming. At...

Revamp Your Book Sales for a New or Older Book with Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Publicity Tour Special

Pump Up Your Book, an innovative public relations agency specializing in online book publicity, is happy to announce a very cost-saving special in December 2011 to help authors – new and old – promote their books during the holidays.

If you have an older title and want to give it some new life with new sales or a new author wanting to get your feet wet in the online world, try out our December 2011 Virtual Book Publicity Tour Special.

Your tour will consist of 10 appearances on ...

The Story Behind Your Average Joe Unplugged by Joseph Schneller

The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking's newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors' books or how they got published. Today's guest is Joseph Schneller, author of Your Average Joe Unplugged (Nordskog Publishing).

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Guest Post: "Confessions of a Broken Man"

© Joseph Schneller 2011

Your Average Joe: Unplugged

 

In the fall of 2008, I left my job in the hope of something new, something better, something f...

Book Teaser Spotlight: Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! by Tamara Elizabeth

Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It!

by Tamara Elizabeth

Trail Blazing Press

Self-Help; Motivational

Produced by Pump Up Your Book

Purchase the book at Amazon

This is my story, a story of a woman who has discovered how through my reflections, the truly fabulously lovable me; the authentic me that I was born to be. I have moxie like the trail blazing women of the 20's.

Today I am a confident, lovable courageous woman who realizes that fairy-tales don't always have the...

Interview with Phyllis Schieber, author of THE MANICURIST

The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber's life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants.  In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan's Upper West Side, known as "Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson."

She graduated from high school at sixteen, earned a B.A. in English from Herbert H. Lehman College, an M.A. in Literature...

Guest Blogger: Immaculate House or Published Book? by Christa Allan

So how do you write and take care of everything else at the same time?  Christa Allan is here to talk about what goes on in her crazy life and how she manages to write, too!

Immaculate House or Published Book?

By Christa Allan

If I'd been more serious about writing a book years ago, I'd have a much cleaner house. No, not because I would have sold millions and been able to afford a full-time housekeeper. The good news/bad news is that I could have accomplished the turbo-clean...

The Story Behind The Lonely Mile by Allan Leverone

The Story Behind THE LONELY MILE

By Allan Leverone

I grew up in a little town in central Massachusetts and went to college in northern Indiana, at the University of Notre Dame. After my Freshman year I had a car, and driving back and forth for semester breaks and the like entailed a trip of nearly twenty-four hours. Normally, I would drive with a friend and we would make the almost one thousand mile trip in one straight shot, stopping only for gas and coffee, before hitting...