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October 17, 2007
Publisher's Desk For October 17th
BOOKLOCKER AUTHOR WINS AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITERS AWARD!
Is There a Hole in the Boat? Tales of Travel in Panama without a Car by Darrin DuFord won the Silver Award in the Travel Book Category of the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition Awards for Work Published in 2006-2007. Congrats, Darrin! You can read more about Darrin's book here:
http://www.booklocker.com/books/2573.html
HOW TO HOOK AGENTS/PUBLISHERS WITH THE FIRST
PAGES OF YOUR BOOK PROPOSAL
Agents and editors plow through hundreds of manuscripts every week. You've got only a few pages to impress them -- really, only a few paragraphs -- before they toss your manuscript on the return-to-sender pile with a nasty red REJECT stamp on the first page.
What keeps them reading past the first paragraph? Do you know?
Click HERE.
NEXT 24-HOUR SHORT STORY CONTEST!
The WritersWeekly.com Winter 2008 24-Hour Short Story Contest is now open for entrants! It is limited to 500 entrants. Contests usually fill up, so don't delay if you want to participate. The contest is tons of fun! You can see the list of 85 prizes (first prize is $300, second is $250 and third is $200 - plus 82 other prizes!), and sign up here: http://www.writersweekly.com/misc/contest.html
WRITERSWEEKLY.COM'S CURRENT BEST SELLING BOOK!
BAM: Book A Month
How long does it take you to finish a manuscript? Do you have stacks of incomplete stories that stalled in Act II or just never seemed to end or end up tens of thousands of words too short? Does the idea of outlining give you chills and evoke flashbacks to third grade and Roman numerals?
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-Cyn Mobley
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WHAT ARE THE CURRENT BEST SELLING ITEMS AT WRITERSWEEKLY?
FREE EXCERPTS OF ALL BOOKS available at the links below.
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Entry fee and contest guidelines ebook.
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"It's not difficult to write a full-length commercial novel in one month if you do the hard work up front. I know--that's what I do."
-Cyn Mobley
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In these pages, you'll find real query letters that landed real assignments for national magazines, websites, and corporations, including: Woman's Day - $2,800; Redbook - $3,500; Ladies Home Journal - $3,000; Health Magazine - $2,000; Natural Remedies - $11,300; and more!
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The Internet has changed the landscape of book publishing forever. That's why four of the five largest New York book publishers hire Penny C. Sansevieri to mentor their own Internet publicity department employees. It's also why these major publishers routinely recommend Penny to their authors as an Internet publicist.
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SUCCESSFUL BOOKLOCKER.COM AUTHORS
What are the current best-selling authors at Booklocker.com?
Their books are listed in order here: http://booklocker.com
*WHAT'S NEW AT WRITERSWEEKLY?*
BAM ADVANCED FICTION TECHNIQUES: FIRST PAGES
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There are three basic ways to hook readers. Do you know what they are?
FOUR Ps TO PUBLISHING SUCCESS
http://writersweekly.com/books/3114.html
A personal, step-by-step guide to navigating the publishing process.
HOW TO CREATE QUIZZES, SURVEYS & POLLS TO POWER-PROMOTE
YOUR BOOK OR WEBSITE!
http://writersweekly.com/books/3061.html
Simple, easy, fun ways to promote and sell books (and to bring viewers to a book's website). Step-by-step instructions and templates. Quizzes, surveys and polls server as "edu-marketing" tools to educate your audience - about themselves, about a topic that interests themÖand last, but certainly not least, about your book.
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FIRST AID FOR DYING BOOKS
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Revive the sales of your under promoted book no matter how long it has been on the market.
THE TWELVE COSTLIEST MISTAKES AUTHORS MAKEÖAnd how YOU can avoid them!
http://www.writersweekly.com/books/3110.html
Literary Agent and author, Wendy Keller, shares personal tips, techniques and inside information on topics such as finding and working with a literary agent, how to present your manuscript and reading and understanding a literary agent contract.
50 NIFTY MARKETING TRICKS FOR WRITERS
http://www.writersweekly.com/books/3109.html
This clever e-book is jam-packed with FIFTY proven, unusual "tricks" you can use to get your book the attention - and sales - it deserves.
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