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Advice to Authors: Give Acquisition Editors What They Want
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| Authors: Ever wonder what acquisition editors at book publishing houses are looking for? Want the "inside scoop"?
Here's some advice for authors from a 25-year publishing veteran--Jerry D. Simmons. |
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Why Time Management Is Overrated
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| If you visit any library or bookstore, you'll see shelves full of books on time management. It seems we all want to "manage" our time, "get control" of our time, and start doing "what we're supposed to, when we're supposed to." |
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Are You a Human Being or a Human Doing?
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| What's this personal time for? Anything other than work. Remember that gym membership? This is when you can actually use it. Or get a massage, visit a museum, browse the bookstore, or have lunch with a friend. This is [a part of] the time that will make you a well-rounded, interesting human being rather than a worker-bee "human doing."
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It’s All About PR
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| You learn that, in the book world, PR is everything. When you walk into a bookstore, you are walking into a treasure house of 140,000 books. Online at amazon.com, there are 2.5 million books. Somewhere in your mind, dimly, you knew that, but nothing drives it home so much as walking into a bookstore and seeing rack upon rack of beautiful books and then you go find your section and see all the racks of beautiful self-help books and then... |
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Why doesn't every bookstore carry my books?
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| Many new authors will be so excited about their debut book that they don't ask their publisher the right questions about distribution. Many assume that their books will get automatic placement in every bookstore across the country. Then the sad reality hits them. |
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THE HEART AND SOUL OF RETAIL SUCCESS
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| There's more to retail success than putting stuff on shelves and hoping it will sell. This article goes into the more personal aspects of feeling successful and how that impacts your business. |
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The Finishing Touch: How to Craft Titles that Sell
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| When you’re perusing the shelves at your local bookstore, what’s the first thing you notice about almost every book you pick up? The title! |
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It starts in the Brain
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| Books such as the iconic “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936, Dale Carnegie) or “Think and Grow Rich” (1937, Napoleon Hill) are based on the premise that we need to get our minds right before anything else can happen the way we want it to. Look at the book shelves in any bookstore or library and today you will find a plethora of material providing the same basic message.There is no shortage of material explaining the “what”: there is, however, a shortage of material explaining “how” to enable one to shift the area of control in the brain so that everything else can follow.
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How to Develop Your Best-Selling Book Idea
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| Everyone has at least one book in them-I firmly believe that. But bookstore shelves are packed with titles, all competing for readers’ attention. So how can you tell if your book idea is ready for the competitive publishing business? |
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Start Your Own Makeup Line - Here's How
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| If you want to start your own cosmetic line, first decide on a specific and unique solution that you will provide to your customers. There are so many cosmetic products on store shelves today that unless you have a unique selling proposition, your product will get lost in the market... |
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Stress or Success?
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| If you were to search the internet or bookstore you might find book after book with the word success embedded in the title or subtitle – all penned by self proclaimed millionaires, billionaires or the truly rich and famous. I have read many of them. And one thing becomes very clear.
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