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Book in Progress #11: Marketing

Joe Taylor You think you know what you know, until you find out you don’t. I learned some lessons selling my first book, “I’m Just Lucky To Own My Own…

Book in Progress #10: Reaching Out

Joe Taylor Results have exceeded my expectations. I should feel grateful. Instead, I feel thankful. Of the 78 copies of “I’m Just Lucky To Own My Own Car” that I’ve…

Book in Progress, Part 9: Selling the Book

Joe Taylor The Writing End Game Why do you want to write a book? Because you have something the world needs to hear? You want to entertain readers with a…

Self-Publishing: Book in Progress, Part 8

by Joe Taylor - why self-publishing became an attractive option, given some drawbacks The Vision of a Book Admit it, this has happened to you---a friend reads a couple of…

Getting the Book Tested – Book in Progress, Part 7

by Joe Taylor Legitimate Doubts Just the other day I tore up and threw away the list of over 80 literary agents that I had queried about finding a publisher…

Book in Progress, Part 6: I Believe in My Book

by Joe Taylor To be brutally honest, it's been worse than brutal. It's been silent. A month after Labor Day, when I thought my responses from prospective agents might pick…

Preparing for a Literary Agent – Book in Progress, Part 5

My first couple of days of submitting to agents were exhausting and extremely frustrating. I would identify a target agent then send her (90% are women) whatever she requested. About a quarter of them came back immediately as undeliverable. Thinking, I guess, that “this agent was my only hope” I’d keep trying to find a better email address or resending it. Finally, I realized she may be out of business or posted a bad address and moved on.

Enacting the Edits: Book in Progress, Part 4

Surgeons have often been accused of being emotionally removed from the patient they're operating on, removing 'this' and 'rewiring' that. I could relate to that as I performed literary 'surgery'…