Why do I teach GCT?

That’s what one of my students asked me a couple week ago. “It can’t make you much money,” she said. “Not for the amount of time and work you put in over the three months.” She’s right; it doesn’t. I spend three hours a week teaching each class–in the fall, that’s going to go up [...]

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I regularly find LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. posts from freelance writers lamenting low fees, slow pays, and big corporations getting away with employee restraints but not providing employee benefits. Don’t you deserve better? As a book ghostwriter, I always get paid, I set my own fees, and I can work as many big-ticket projects at [...]

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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: [...]

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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 simple: Register [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Writers, please take my survey to help me figure out what kind of classes you’re interested in taking next Spring–besides Ghostwriter Certification Training, of course. Click Here to take survey Thank you very much. – Claudia Suzanne

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I’ve run into so many people of late with such cockamamie ideas about writing and the book business that I simply had to pull out an old piece and update it. So without further ado, here’s the 3 Easiest Ways to Trash Your Literary Aspirations: 1. Write an easily rejected manuscript. Don’t clutter up your [...]

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(This is a reprint with permission from Jane Genova’s Intuitive Readings blog, http://careertransitions.typepad.com/) “I can’t go back to school for a Master’s degree.” “I don’t want to go back to school for a Master’s degree.  I already have one of those which is 100% unmarketable.” “There must be a career that doesn’t require a Master’s [...]

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Just got done with a great teleclass that went a half-hour over! Wonderful questions, although–aarrgghhh–too many I couldn’t answer simply! How can you condense 42 hours of instruction into 25 words or less???

 

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