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Have Keyboard, Will Type: Hard Lessons Learned Hard
So you want to write a book?
You’re not alone. If you’re like most people though, you probably don’t know where—or how—to get started. Not everyone has an agent or a publisher in the family. So what do you do? Do what bestselling author William Alan Webb did to get started! Or, better yet, learn from his mistakes and jump out to an even quicker start!
Inside Have Keyboard: Will Type is everything that Bill Webb learned starting out, both the good and the bad. It’s a frank discussion of what worked for him and the mistakes he made along the way (so you don’t have to make them, too!)
From the very first query letters to pitching agents online, Bill takes you through the query process, showing you how to get a leg up on the competition. Then, once your book is in the publishing process, he shows you how to navigate social media, with actionable ideas to get ahead!
Have Keyboard: Will Type not only takes you through the publishing process, but also gives advice on other topics like reviews, acquiring mentors, and the various avenues for publishing available to you. One of the most important characteristics for a new author is coachability—if you’re ready to learn, step inside! It’s time to get published!
You’re not alone. If you’re like most people though, you probably don’t know where—or how—to get started. Not everyone has an agent or a publisher in the family. So what do you do? Do what bestselling author William Alan Webb did to get started! Or, better yet, learn from his mistakes and jump out to an even quicker start!
Inside Have Keyboard: Will Type is everything that Bill Webb learned starting out, both the good and the bad. It’s a frank discussion of what worked for him and the mistakes he made along the way (so you don’t have to make them, too!)
From the very first query letters to pitching agents online, Bill takes you through the query process, showing you how to get a leg up on the competition. Then, once your book is in the publishing process, he shows you how to navigate social media, with actionable ideas to get ahead!
Have Keyboard: Will Type not only takes you through the publishing process, but also gives advice on other topics like reviews, acquiring mentors, and the various avenues for publishing available to you. One of the most important characteristics for a new author is coachability—if you’re ready to learn, step inside! It’s time to get published!
222 pages, Paperback
First published September 14, 2020
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About the author
William Alan Webb
133 books107 followersWinner of the 2024 Imadjinn Award!
Winner of the 2021 Imadjinn Award!
Finalist for a second 2021 Imadjinn Award!
Winner of the 2020 Darrell Award!
Finalist for a second 2020 Darrell Award!
Winner of the 2019 Imadjinn Award!
Winner of the 2018 Darrell Award!
A Southern boy through and through, Bill spent his entire life learning how to tell stories. It's all Bill ever wanted to do, to inspire and entertain people the way his favorite authors did for him.
Over the years he has developed a unique writing style, or 'Voice', of which he is very proud, with the objective of trying to always entertain his readers.
After graduating from the University of Memphis with dual concentrations in History and Creative Writing, Bill has been published in such diverse magazines as Tied in a Bow (for Wedding planning) and World War II. His books include both non-fiction and fiction.
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September 17, 2020
Candid, helpful, timely
Part memoir and part how-to, this book offers exhortations, admonitions, and affirmations in good measure to writers regardless of their station. On offer from author Webb is a comprehensive overview of contemporary publishing markets, presented in an entertaining, unabashed, and oftentimes audacious manner. Market characteristics are sure to change, not unlike those Webb points out over the course of his life and, more recently, his career as a published author. This book provides a helpful snapshot regardless, offering actionable items for today’s writer and context for writers reading in the future. And many insights Webb offers—several repeated throughout—are timeless indeed. His useful primer on dealing with naysayers, for example, examining not just what “they” say but also why they might say such things. Another: how to discern whether what’s worked for them/there/then may or may not work for you/here/now. This reader pictured himself like a soldier in the throes of battle, guided by a comrade’s shout over the din to the heaven-sent shelter of a foxhole. Right before hearkening to that clarion call—“get ready to book it!”
Part memoir and part how-to, this book offers exhortations, admonitions, and affirmations in good measure to writers regardless of their station. On offer from author Webb is a comprehensive overview of contemporary publishing markets, presented in an entertaining, unabashed, and oftentimes audacious manner. Market characteristics are sure to change, not unlike those Webb points out over the course of his life and, more recently, his career as a published author. This book provides a helpful snapshot regardless, offering actionable items for today’s writer and context for writers reading in the future. And many insights Webb offers—several repeated throughout—are timeless indeed. His useful primer on dealing with naysayers, for example, examining not just what “they” say but also why they might say such things. Another: how to discern whether what’s worked for them/there/then may or may not work for you/here/now. This reader pictured himself like a soldier in the throes of battle, guided by a comrade’s shout over the din to the heaven-sent shelter of a foxhole. Right before hearkening to that clarion call—“get ready to book it!”
October 13, 2020
Writers, there be frank advice here.
Thanks for letting me hitch a ride on your writerly journey.
Thanks for letting me hitch a ride on your writerly journey.
September 14, 2020
This book is, at core, a biography of William Allan Webb which focuses solely on his writing career, what he did wrong, what he did right. Through his experience, the fledgling writer can have an inkling on what he/she has to do to become successful! The book covers a vast array of topics all aimed at helping a novice navigate the pitfalls of a writing career. The book is really entertaining, choke-full of advice and I learned alot from it, even if I didn't implement every recommendation in the book.
Not wanting to spoil the content for you but what you should do, at first, is simple. You claim to be a writer, or to become one: WRITE! write everyday, whatever your mood, whatever the weather! There are many more useful tips, many in form of Dos but also many in from of "Don'ts".It's all no nonsense, all straight to the point!
And now I am off going to talk religion and politics with Bill Webb! Read the book to get the joke! (which isn't one by the way, but that's another story!)
Not wanting to spoil the content for you but what you should do, at first, is simple. You claim to be a writer, or to become one: WRITE! write everyday, whatever your mood, whatever the weather! There are many more useful tips, many in form of Dos but also many in from of "Don'ts".It's all no nonsense, all straight to the point!
And now I am off going to talk religion and politics with Bill Webb! Read the book to get the joke! (which isn't one by the way, but that's another story!)
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