Goodbye 2009

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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