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A Little First Person Insomnia
In January my new primary care doctor took my sleep meds away. I can lie in bed and worry that my scratchy throat is the first symptom of the upheaval my death will cause or I can read. I can sit up and watch my neighbors come and go, driving down to the end of the driveway, turning off their headlights at the mailboxes and waiting silently before reversing the activity and coming back up. I can worry about my son who is in week three of some respiratory illness but needs to be at work because his job is essential. Or, I can read.
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Aggregators, Retailers, Educators and Other Services for Today’s Self Publishing Authors
We are about to wrap up our Self-Publishing Topics and Sunday’s articles contain a lot of links. Possibly enough links to take you well into March. But I promise to wrap up this topic by Wednesday’s Chat on the 26th of February.
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Trends in Publishing
-during the great transition to all things internet, self-published books became an option. Many people having been stung by the Vanity Press heyday or those who had submitted a book to publishers time after time only to end up with enough Rejection Letters to paper their walls, saw the option of self-publishing as something acceptable.
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Contracts Part Two
Contracts Part 2 On Wednesday, we talked about Contracts. The topic chat was an effort to get participants on the same page with vocabulary. On Sunday, February 9th we will talk about Things to Avoid in a Contract.
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Your Query Letter
The first paragraph should be very close to what you would write for a jacket blurb. Unlike the Synopsis, do not give away the ending. In this blurb, you don’t want to talk about yourself, you want to sell your book.