Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest office, Illinois
One of Rachel’s great posts last week was on the benefit and importance of watching trends and being alert to hot topics. These days there seems to be an abundance of hot…
By Mary Keeley on Mar 21, 2011 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Life | 11 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Today, let’s sum up our take-aways from this week’s case studies. There’s no limit to the books we could have analyzed, but I chose phenomenal successes in hopes the clues would be…
By Mary Keeley on Feb 25, 2011 in Blog, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 8 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Crazy Love by Francis Chan, is a recent New York Times nonfiction best-seller. Here is the overview taken from the website:
Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it? It’s crazy if you think about…
By Mary Keeley on Feb 24, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 15 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office: IL
Yesterday we analyzed a fiction title. Today let’s look at a nonfiction phenomenon, a self-help marriage book: The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman.
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By Mary Keeley on Feb 22, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 9 Comments
Blogger: Mary Keeley
Location: Books & Such Midwest Office, IL
In the past weeks we have viewed the industry from the publisher’s, pre-production’s, and agent’s perspectives. The natural progression to complete the loop: the BOOKS. Is there any one of us who…
By Mary Keeley on Feb 21, 2011 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Marketing & Publicity, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 9 Comments
Blogger: Wendy Lawton
Location: Books & Such Central Valley Office, CA
You’ve heard it over and over. Agents get a staggering number of queries. If I were a writer trying to catch a break this information might be enough to stop me…
By Wendy Lawton on Jan 12, 2011 in Blog, Fiction, Finding an Agent, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 32 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
I’ve only been able to give four “lessons” on proposals this week, and I know many of you have had questions. I tried to answer all of them, but I’d…
By Rachel Kent on Nov 19, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Book Proposals, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Life | 23 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Your Platform and Marketing Section
I know I touched on this yesterday, but I’d like to take a more in-depth look at what it means to have a marketing and publicity…
By Rachel Kent on Nov 18, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Fiction, Marketing & Publicity, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 29 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such main office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
What should go into a proposal? What’s the basic format for a proposal? Fiction and nonfiction proposals are slightly different, but I’d like to give all of you a basic…
By Rachel Kent on Nov 17, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Book Proposals, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 11 Comments
Blogger: Rachel Kent
Location: Books & Such Main Office, Santa Rosa, Calif.
Thanks so much for sharing your proposal styles and proposal stories yesterday! That was fun. 
Today I would like to concentrate on the book comparisons or market analysis sections in…
By Rachel Kent on Nov 16, 2010 in Authors, Blog, Book Proposals, Fiction, Nonfiction, Writing Craft | 11 Comments
