A post rather than an email

I received an important email, but rather than send it on, I’d like to direct you to one of the (hopefully many) places it’s been posted. Please go to http://trinitylast.com/a-post-rather-than-an-email/ for a very important message to all Americans, be their Republican or Democrat, northerners or southerners, East Coast or West.
And may God bless us all.

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I did not accomplish all those wonderful things I claimed I would do in 2009. I did not reduce my work day from anytime/any day to nine to five, Monday through Friday. I did not get my house impeccably clean and keep it that way. I did not replace my late mother-in-law’s tank for a [...]

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So long, year of painful change and turmoil.
Yup, here we are again at the end of another tough year. But since it wasn’t as tough as 2008, making that list of things I did right is going to be a lot easier, right?
Of course. Because, as I wrote last year, it’s far too easy to [...]

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I get asked that question a lot: what difference does certification make? Laya Bajpai put it nicely: it gets your foot in the door. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2520457/ghostwriting_can_be_lucrative_pg2.html?cat=31
Certification training gives you an edge not only in the marketplace, but in doing the actual job of ghostwriting. It takes you out of the league of “just another writer” and [...]

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I saw it again–another discussion on another message board about the validity of self-publishing services v. subsidy press.
Please.
Signing up with a self-publishing service doth not make thee a self-publisher.
Actual self-publishers get LCCNs and P-CIPs so their books can be sold to libraries.
Actual self-publishers do, indeed, have imprints and business addresses and business licenses and resale [...]

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In case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve put out a free eBook: PLOT YOUR NOVEL IN 15 MINUTES OR LESS. It’s not a gimmick or a come-on–it’s a real technique that’s been used in Hollywood for decades. It’s one of the few techniques in SECRETS OF A GHOSTWRITER that I did not personally create.
(To download PLOT [...]

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After yet another round of discussions with yet another handful of authors and editors, and perusing yet another slew of ebooks about what agents want, what publishers want, and what the public wants, I feel I really must take a definitive stand. You may quote me.
There are only two absolutes in the book industry: 1) [...]

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In response to multiple requests, Marilyn has moved the Feel Free to Prosper Writers Teleclass to Monday, November 16, at 6 PM Pacific time.
Whimsical story aside, let me lay it on the line: the Teleclass is the culmination of Lesson One of Marilyn’s world-renown Feel Free to Prosper program. The process is [...]

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A True Story
Once upon a time, a really smokin’ ghost lost her groove. No, she didn’t collide with some old man while dancing down the hall, and she didn’t go to Jamaica and hook up with an underage cutie, either. She just got smacked in the face with that most famous of all movie devices, [...]

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Maryan Pelland just sent me Chip McGregor’s 10/29/09 blog about personal stories no longer being viable in today’s book business.
He’s absolutely right–from an agent’s pov. Here’s my take: publishers aren’t willing to spend money on these books because the market for them is down since the Internet is indeed awash with such personal stories for [...]

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