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by Sandra Parshall Ever get the feeling that your self-promotion is annoying people rather than enticing them to read your books? How much ...

by Sheila Connolly Four years ago, a month or so before my first book came out, I wrote a post for the now defunct blog Writers Plot, abou...

Elizabeth Zelvin My short story, “Death Will Tank Your Fish,” appears along with twenty-one others in the anthology, Murder New York Style...

by Sheila Connolly I promise I'll stop obsessing about this soon, but with two books coming out in the next two months, promotion is...

by Sheila Connolly (Last Friday Blogger ate this post, along with a lot of others.  But it's no less timely this week.) Thank you, ...

Sandra Parshall Facebook. MySpace. Twitter. Blogs. Websites. Internet listservs. Somehow it has become an absolute necessity for writers to ...

By Ellen Crosby (Guest blogger) Ne w year, new book. For the fou rth year in a row, the first Tuesday in August is mine--the day Scribner, m...

By Vicki Delany, guest blogger Before I became a writer I imagined the book tour as follows: · T day minus one month – Receive schedule o...

by Darlene Ryan Whether your New Year's resolution is to write in more depth, more detail or just write more words here are ten ways to ...

Sandra Parshall A popular mystery writer once said that her agent told her she could either be a “conference slut” or she could pick one or...

Elizabeth Zelvin I first said I wanted to be a writer in 1951. I got my first rave rejection, for a children’s story, in 1970. (“So the next...

Sandra Parshall Have you ever seen a farmer standing next to the broccoli in a supermarket, extolling the virtues of his product to shopper...

by Darlene Ryan The publishing industry much like television networks and movie studios, uses endorsements as a way to entice you to buy the...

I've been sidelined with a code in my node the last few days. Since the day after Christmas, to be precise. But the show must go on. Or ...

Sandra Parshall You know those sidewalk peddlers who try to make you believe they're selling you a real Rolex for twenty bucks? Sometime...

Julia Buckley Thanks for talking with me. Do people ever try to guess what your initials stand for? James Anthony? Joshua Albright? Jonat...