The Writers Chat Room

Category: Sunday Chats

  • A Little First Person Insomnia

    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…

  • Aggregators, Retailers, Educators and Other Services for Today’s Self Publishing Authors

    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.

  • Trends in Publishing

    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.

  • Contracts Part Two

    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.

  • Your Query Letter

    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.