You’ve heard this before: authors (and especially aspiring authors) should be blogging. It helps build platform, it is good writing practice, it lets readers find and interact with you, and it sells books. We all know all the reasons we’re supposed to be writing a blog.

If you’re still not blogging, then let me tell you that I understand. It’s hard enough to find time to write a book; blogging on top of that can seem impossible. I have three kids–I can hardly find time to shower, let alone write and maintain a blog. And even if you can make time, it’s not always easy to know what to write about, especially if you’re a creative writer and your book doesn’t really give advice. I have struggled with this myself.

All these struggles and excuses are why I have read and reread Are You There Blog, It’s Me Writer by Kristen Lamb at least four times. This book, which I discovered almost by accident during one of those monthly Kindle sales, not only inspired me to start a blog, but the author also shot down every excuse I’ve ever made for not blogging.

What to write about? Who are you really writing your blog for? And what do they want to know? How to make time? Lamb answers them all. And she’s funny!

Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing some blogging tips to help you get your blog going. Watch for those!

Editor’s Note: This guest post is about how to use Pinterest (everyone’s new favorite social media site–including mine) to market your book. If you’re not on Pinterest yet, it’s a lot of fun and lots of people spend hours on there at a time. As an author, you should consider taking advantage of this growing audience. Enjoy the following tips!

There’s a new social networking site on the scene that’s been gaining users like crazy. It’s called Pinterest, and it works like a digital version of one of those bulletin boards with the pushpins that your elementary school teachers used to have. At its core, Pinterest is like thousands of digital bulletin boards all linked together and available for public viewing online. It’s about posting pictures on your own board that relate to themes you care about and sharing others that you like.

As with many online services, there’s great potential for Pinterest to become a useful way to get your message out. Already, authors have been finding that Pinterest works wonders as a book promotion tool.

1. It’s About Images: First of all, it’s important to understand that Pinterest is primarily an image-based social networking site. Twitter and Facebook do allow images, but their major draws are text-based tweets, status updates, and wall posts. If you’re going to use Pinterest, you need to find a visual angle that works with book promotion. That might mean concept art, storyboards, character sketches, and photos with fans, pictures of your dog chasing her tail, or something else that draws fans. The important thing is that you emphasize some sort of visual aspect of the book or your experience as an author by posting original content.

2. Engage With Fans: For better or worse, the days when you could tell your assistant to open fan letters on your behalf are gone. Today’s open world means that you will find much more success as an author if you treat book promotion as a two-way communication with fans. By all means, have a social media presence, but take an active role with it. With Pinterest specifically, follow the boards of authors and individuals you like. Repin posts that you appreciate. Have the “repin” button appear next to content on your website, and cross-promote using other social networking sites. If you connect with others and engage with the community, that effort will come back to you in the form of people seeing your posts and telling their friends about you.

3. You’re In It For The Long Haul: Using social media for book promotion shouldn’t just happen after you’ve decided to write and publish a book. Pinterest—along with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites—is a long-term strategy for marketing, public relations, and book promotion. It’s an ongoing process of interacting with fans, posting new content, and improving your brand. As long as you continue to be a part of these online communities, you’ll have a built-in audience of fans and followers ready to repin your pictures, share your posts, and of course, buy your new book!

Ultimately, using Pinterest is like using any other marketing tool. Know your audience and understand the strengths and weaknesses of that particular tool. Then, be persistent and be willing to put in the time to see the fruits of your labor. Once you do, your book promotion efforts will start paying serious dividends.

Erica Ronchetti is a freelancer writer interested in Book Promotion. Learn more about Book Marketing services by visiting smithpublicity.com.

Happy New Year!

If selling more books is on your to-do list this year, I want to share an opportunity to learn a few tricks from expert book marketer Dana Lynn Smith.

On January 8, she’s sharing her new audio-visual training program designed just for authors of nonfiction books. (She’s got one for novelists and one for children’s book authors too.) The program is called  How to Sell More Nonfiction Books and it’s designed to help you showcase your expertise and get more books in the hands of more readers.

Here’s what else you’ll learn:

• Six things that make a book successful

• How to define multiple target markets for your books

• Seven places to sell nonfiction books

• Five  marketing tools that book authors need

• The top ten promotional tactics for selling nonfiction books

• Nine other promotional tactics to consider

• How to get paid for promoting your book

• Four kinds of promotional campaigns you can use to sell more books

• The pros and cons of using Amazon’s KDP Select program and how to maximize its effectiveness

• Tips for developing a customized book marketing plan that works for you

If selling more books in 2013 is your goal, now is the time to get started developing an effective book marketing strategy.

Here’s where you can get all the details and sign up:

How to Sell More Nonfiction Books – Tuesday, January 8

Dana’s programs are always outstanding. And what a way to kick off the year! I hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to learn how to boost sales of your books in 2013!

**NOTE: The links in this post are my affiliate links, so I’ll earn a small commission if you sign up.

If you’re interested in using social media to grow your author platform and market your books and writing, then chances are you’ve created accounts and maybe even gotten a few followers. That’s a great first step. But now it’s time to jump in and participate.

So what exactly do you do to start building your networks and influence? Though the term “social media” groups social networks like LinkedIn, Google+, and Facebook all in one bucket, in reality they’re all quite different. Each one has a different kind of communication style and each one has different tools you can use to promote your writing and your books.

Here’s a list of the various different kinds of activities you can do on each site.

Facebook Activity List

Post a Photo – Whenever you have an in person event, post a photo. If you’re launching a new product, you can also post photos of the product. Photos are inherently more eye catching than text.

Add a Milestone – Your timeline plays a big role in how people view your overall Facebook presence. Use milestones to make important things in your timeline stand out.

Create a Group – Facebook groups are powerful community building tools. You can create a very vibrant community of people who share ideas with one another using a Facebook group.

Create a Page – A Facebook page is a great place to host your social media presence. It’s the ideal way to relate to social media fans as a brand. Unlike a personal account that has a cap on the number of friends you can have, with a page you have no such cap. Rather than maintain a page for your book, you should create one for you–an author page. This way you won’t have to maintain numerous pages when you write more books; everything will be in one place.

Invite People to Your Page – You can “suggest” a page to your entire network of contacts. If your friends like what you’re up to, there’s a good chance they’ll join your page.

Google+ Activity List

Have a Quality Profile Photo – This is more important than on any other social network, because your profile photo will actually show up in Google searches. People will see the picture you put up actually displayed on the search results page for your name when they Google you.

Check Your Description – Your Google+ profile shows up in search engines as a combination of your tagline, your occupation, your employment information, and your introduction, in that order. Make sure you have a stellar tagline and complete information filled out to maximize your results.

Separate People into Circles - One of Google+’s most important features is the ability to separate people into different circles. Take advantage of this feature to group your followers into categories that make sense. Tailor your updates to different groups of people according to their interests.

Encourage Google +1s – Google +1s influence your search rankings more than any other social media vote. It’s more influential than Facebook likes or Twitter retweets. Get as many +1s as you can by actively asking readers and followers to +1 you.

Get Your Account Verified – Once you have 1,000 followers, get your account verified. You’ll get a “Verified” badge on your Google+ page, which helps build credibility.

Twitter Activity List

Setup Your Bio – Setup your bio or tagline to catch people’s attention to moment they land on your Twitter page.

Customize Your Background – Having a strong background can really change the first impression of your Twitter page. A well crafted custom background that matches your brand can really “wow” your audience.

Tweet Often – Twitter has a culture of high frequency posts. Use tools like Seesmic or TweetDeck to schedule your tweets, but don’t rely solely on scheduled tweets. The point of social media is to be social–so make an appearance regularly!

Post Your #FFs -Follow Fridays is your chance to recommend people to follow. If you think there’s an expert people in your space should really know about, recommend them on Follow Fridays with the #FF hashtag.

Use @Mentions wisely - When someone says something you’re interested in, @reply them. If someone @mentions you, @mention them back. Build communication loops.

LinkedIn Activity List

Add Keywords to Your Profile – Potential employers and partners will often look for contacts by doing keyword searches. Look at other people in your industry and see what kind of keywords they’re using and make sure you’ve got the same keywords in your profile.

Join and Participate in Groups – Groups are a fantastic place to meet other people and connect with potential readers. Join groups and be an active participant. Offer advice where you can and network.

Complete Your Work History – The more comprehensive you are with your work experience, the easier you make it for other people to get a sense for who you are. And if you’re looking for work and professional opportunities on LinkedIn, this is of utmost importance. Many employers won’t even consider candidates who don’t have their career information fully filled out.

Get as Many Recommendations as Possible - Comb through your network and look for people who harbor goodwill towards you. Ask them to give you a recommendation.

Actively Seek Out Connections -  Look for people who’re one degree of separation away from you whom you want to meet. Don’t be shy about asking people in your network for connections. As long as you make it clear that you’re someone who gives valuable advice, people will generally be more than happy to make a referral for you.

Get Busy Growing Your Platform on Social Media Networks

As you can tell, each social network works a bit differently than others. Each network has participants interact with one another in slightly different ways. Some may not apply to you, but others might be a great way for you to build your brand as a writer and author and cultivate an audience of readers. Tailor your daily activity lists to the specific social network you’re working on. Now get out there and share all the great writing you’re doing!

Why should the novelists have all the fun in November? Although National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) started the book-in-a-month trend, there’s a book writing challenge for nonfiction writers too.

Write Nonfiction in November was created by Nina Amir, an author and blogger, in response to NaNoWriMo. Just like the fiction writing contest, she has challenged nonfiction writers to complete a work of nonfiction in one month. The guidelines are more loose than NaNoWriMo, which require 50,000 words in thirty days, because “a work of nonfiction” can be interpreted in different ways. In other words, it doesn’t have to be a book and it can be shorter than 50,000 words. So regardless of what kind of nonfiction writing projects you’ve been thinking about, now is the time to get them done.

To officially join the challenge, you can view the rules here: Write Nonfiction in November Challenge. She’s even arranged for a virtual pitch slam with literary agents for those who complete their book in the month, which is a pretty awesome incentive!

I will be working on (and completing!) a big nonfiction book project in November, but, alas, I won’t be starting from scratch and therefore don’t qualify to officially join the challenge. (I’ve already written a book proposal and three sample chapters of my book, as well as rough drafts of a few other chapters.) But rest assured, I will be writing about 1,700 words a day all month long.

Are you with me?

One more thing… If you need help planning and writing your book, my Summit Book Writing Workshop is a great step-by-step system to follow. It helps writers combine all their ideas into a compelling concept and write their best nonfiction book. Click here to get all the details and order your copy now.

If you’re a writer, then you’ve probably heard about using social media to attract readers. The attention around it has been pretty difficult to ignore. However, some say social media is all hype and that the effort an author spends there doesn’t do much for book sales. Over the past few months, some have questioned whether it’s valuable at all for writers and authors to spend their time marketing books on social media.

With social media marketing experts recommending a writer spend 80 percent of their time building a platform on social media and a mere 20 percent writing, as some of those skeptics claim, I can see why. That doesn’t leave much time for writing, which is the only thing that can make you a more successful writer.

I have always struggled with how not to feel like I’m wasting my time on social media. And while I’m sure it’s no magic ticket to literary stardom, I do recognize the value of being in a place and sharing what I do where so many people are congregating and communicating. For that reason, I continue to plug away at my social media marketing. But I try to be strategic and realistic about it.

Make a Social Media Plan

Part of being strategic is having a plan. When I came across this tutorial on making a social media marketing plan, I thought I would share it with you. Basically, your social media plan is like the rails that your social media train runs on. Without the rails, a train could still move quickly. But it would undoubtedly run off the track and away from the direction you want it to go. The same goes for social media.

You can spend a lot of time on social media without actually getting much done. You can even repel people by spending too much time promoting yourself on social media. On the flip side, with a strong social media plan, social media can be an incredibly powerful tool for connecting with people and finding new readers.

So what should you include in your social media plan?

Core Goals and Metrics to Track

To start with, you should have your core goals and your core metrics figured out right at the very beginning.

Begin with your goals. What do you want to use social media for? Are you trying to connect with potential readers? Are you trying to land speaking engagements? Are you trying to expose your writing to more people? Are you trying to build up your follower count? Are you trying to drive traffic to your site and get actual book buyers? In all likelihood, you’re after a combination of those things.

The metrics you’d track stem directly from your goals. For example, if you’re trying to build up your follower count, you can keep track of the number of new followers you gain per day and how many people share your updates. On the other hand, if you’re trying to make book sales, visitors to your website might be your most important metric.

You can’t have a good social media plan without clear goals. Start your planning by figuring out what your goals are, then pick your core metrics to track.

What Social Media Sites You Plan to Cover

Your plan should cover exactly which social networks you plan to be on. The networks you use depend mostly on who you’re trying to reach.

Let’s say you’re trying to land more speaking gigs. In this case, being on Facebook might not be the best way to reach your target audience. Instead, getting on LinkedIn is probably your best avenue, followed by Twitter.

Don’t neglect smaller social networks either. For reaching an early adopter crowd, Google+ could be a very viable option. Smaller communities might have their own social networks setup on Ning (as shown below).

The long and short of it is this: Go where your audience is.

Breakdown of How to Spend Your Time

Your plan should have a detailed outline of how you plan to spend your time. For example, your plan might look something like this:

Monday: 30 Minutes Scheduling Facebook Posts, 30 Minutes Scheduling Twitter Tweets
Tuesday: 30 Minutes Replying to Messages, 30 Minutes Posting on LinkedIn Q&A
Wednesday: 60 Minutes Post on Forums, Comment on Blogs
Thursday: Repeat Monday
Friday: Repeat Tuesday

Try to segment your activities into different “buckets.” When your time in one bucket runs out, move on. Don’t let yourself get sucked into one thing for too long. Also, don’t rely too heavily on automated updating. It starts to feel like spam after a while.

List of Essential Social Media Actions

What are the most important things you have to get done every week?

If you’re trying to land speaking gigs, then an essential action should be to respond to any conference organizer within three business hours. It doesn’t matter what else you’re doing, this takes precedence.

If you want to foster connections (and in social media, you should), then maybe you commit to reaching out to and interacting with ten people per day.

If you’re trying to build a social media following, your essential action might be not missing a post. You have a schedule and you stick to it rigidly. If something might detract you from hitting your posting deadline, those things have to wait.

Having a list of your essential actions can help you prioritize tasks when you’re busy trying to write.

A Plan for Outreach and Connection Building

Two things you should have as part of your plan are building your audience and deepening your connection with your community.

Your outreach strategy should be, again, tailored to your goals. If you’re trying to reach people high-profile book reviewers or people with the power to influence many others, you might comment on their blogs for several weeks before shooting them a direct Twitter message. If you’re trying to build a Facebook audience, your strategy might involve putting out innovative content every month.

As for building connections, the most important thing to realize on social media is the value of a single person. It’s easy to get lost in the statistics and the crowd of a thousand likes. But often time’s your biggest breakthroughs–winning over a new reader, getting booked to speak, scoring a review in a high-profile publication, etc.–will come from the most unexpected places.

Whenever you can, reach out and get in touch with people one on one. Acknowledge your fans and build real connections.

Treat Your Social Media Plan as a Living Document

If you don’t want to waste your precious writing time doing things that aren’t really working for you, then don’t treat your social media marketing plan as something that’s set in stone. Let it grow and move organically. See what works for you and do more of that, and don’t waste time doing what doesn’t. Your plan should grow as you grow and as your audience grows.

Most importantly, don’t mistake social media marketing for a fast ticket to success. It should, probably for most authors and writers, be a piece of the larger marketing picture. Use it as a tool to keep yourself and your book marketing efforts on track as you head towards your goals. But keep in mind that social media works best when combined with other marketing and platform building methods, such as live speaking engagements, readings, blogging, and publications. And social media, or any other marketing tactic, will never make up for poor writing. The most important thing you can do to make yourself a more successful writer and author is to write!

Questions or comments?

I may have mentioned that I attended the Short Story America Festival a few weeks ago. One of the sessions was about how writers control time in stories using Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” as an example. The class, like the rest of the festival, focused on fiction writing, but creative nonfiction writers and memoir writers also have to control time.

When writing a memoir, a writer must be truthful, but they can also be creative in their presentation of the facts. One of the most important questions I face when ghostwriting a memoir is how to structure a story out of a timeline of chronological events in a way that heightens the drama, makes things more interesting, and ultimately makes the story more meaningful. Often this means starting somewhere other than the beginning.

Understand How the Three-Act Story Structure Works

Before I explain what Hemingway did, let me briefly describe how story structure works. Perhaps you’ve heard of the three-act story structure. It is a foundation of creative writing that memoir writers can use to think about their own story.

Here’s how the three-act story structure works:

Act One

1. Open with action and hook the reader. What will make the reader want to keep reading?

2. Start the engine. Every story has an engine, something that moves it forward, such as a question. Present this in a way that makes the reader want to know the answer.

3. Define the situation and conflict. Orient the reader in time, space, and circumstance.

4. Introduce the theme. What is the story really about? What larger truth can be inferred from the thing the protagonist and antagonist are in conflict over?

Act Two

1. Get your protagonist in trouble. Introduce a series of obstacles he or she must overcome to reach resolution.

2. When you’ve developed the new situations and complications you’ve introduced, you’re at the end of act two.

3. The event that occurs at the end of act two propels the end of the story.

Act Three

1. The protagonist overcomes the problem that brings the story to resolution.

2. The denouement: a scene of falling action that gives readers an image or idea that sticks with them as the story ends.

3. The third act falls in action until it stops, and that’s where the story ends. In other words, don’t linger.

Now Here’s What Hemingway Did…

“The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” is about  go on a hunting trip to Africa, and the main events of the story occur over two days. In chronological order, on the first day, Macomber displays cowardice when charged by a wounded lion. His vindictive wife is embarrassed by this and sleeps with the hunting guide that night. The next morning, things are tense between the three characters and Macomber and the guide take off to hunt buffalo. While hunting the buffalo, Macomber is successful and is left with a renewed confidence. Only to have his wife shoot and kill him.

However, this isn’t how Hemingway tells the story. The story opens the afternoon after the lion hunting incident when Macomber embarrassed his wife. The wife is angry and very nasty to him, but the reader doesn’t find out why she’s so upset until later when Macomber is reflecting upon the lion hunt that evening. He played with the timeline when structuring the story.

So what effect does revealing the events of the story in this way have? For Hemingway, it introduced the characters in an already-tense situation in a way that makes the reader want to know what’s going on. Then by telling what happened on the lion hunt, he revealed the reasons for the conflict between the characters. Finally, with everything that happened on the hunting trip explained and the tension between the husband and wife cranked as tight as it could go, he ended the story with the twist that has kept readers guessing for decades.

A Writing Challenge to Try

I’ve been thinking about this approach to structure for so many weeks that I plan on trying it. I will have to keep you posted on the results. If you’re up for it, you can try writing a short memoir piece that plays with time to enhance the story structure. Or, if you have a piece of writing that you’ve been stuck on, maybe this is your answer. Let me know how it goes in the comments below!

When I think about finding a literary agent, I think about needles in haystacks. The publishing world is enormous–just take a walk through the library. There are so many different kinds of books. And there are hundreds–possibly thousands–of agents 0ut there, all of whom have connections with editors and publishers who specialize in certain types of books.

Professional literary agents tend to specialize, and the challenge for a writer coming from outside the publishing world is finding agents who handle their kind of book. And writers often have to put their work in front of a few hundred agents before they find the right person to represent them. In other words, it helps to have a big list of potential literary agents when you’re ready to start the querying process. So where can you start looking for a literary agent?

First, you need to think about your book and how it should be categorized. Where would it be shelved in the bookstore? Consider books that are similar to yours and see where they’re shelved.  Then you need to locate agents who handle your type of book and send them each a query letter.

Here are a few places to start your search for a literary agent…

1. AgentQuery.com–This is a searchable database of agents. You can search them by the genre and topic, and the site includes a ton of resources on things like writing a query letter and the agent’s role in the publishing world.

2. Book Shelves–If you want to find agents who represent books that are similar to yours, look at books similar to yours. Literally, look at your book collection and the shelves at the bookstore where your book will most likely fit. Often the author will thank their agent in the acknowledgements, and then you can search for more information about them online.

3. Mediabistro–If you’re a premium member of mediabistro.com’s AvantGuild (and you might want to consider becoming one), you get access to their “Pitching an Agent” features. In these articles, they interview agents about what they’re looking for and how to get their attention.

4. Poets & Writers Literary Agent Directory–Though not quite as searchable as AgentQuery.com, the Poets & Writers agent database is another wonderful place to search for agents based on the types of material they represent.

Starting your search for a literary agent

Most writers have to query many, many agents before they find the right one. So the more potential agents you can find, the better. Check out all these different places when you start your search. And please, if you have any other suggestions on where to find a literary agent, share in the comments!

Welcome to the weekend! Here are a few articles and resources that caught my eye this past week…

Rejection is not fun. Believe me; I’ve become intimately familiar with it lately. But it comes with the writing territory, right? YES! Krissy Brady from Krissy Media Inc. recently published a fantastic article about how to handle rejection. You can read it here: Going Toe-to-Toe with Rejection (And How to Keep Writing).

In honor of Banned Books Week (September 30-October 6), here’s a piece from Flavorwire.com with famous authors’ responses to their books being banned. My favorite is Maurice Sendak’s response to Stephen Colbert, because Stephen Colbert is hilarious.

And finally, with everyone talking about how the book publishing industry is upside down and how it’s impossible to get a book deal, let alone much of an advance, I was interested to see that Lena Dunham, the gal who created the “Girls” television show, is, as of this writing, in negotiations for a multimillion dollar book deal. Go girl! I should watch that sh0w.

Have a great weekend! Have any links to share?

Is your book ready to publish?

Is this manuscript you’ve slaved over for so long ready to send off?

All writers must face the question: Is it done? Although I think it gets easier with experience, this question can be difficult to answer, particularly when dealing with our own work. I have trouble answering it myself.

Sending something out too early is risky. But fiddling with your book just to fiddle with it isn’t good either. At some point, your revisions become ineffective and all you’re doing is delaying your goal of getting the book published.

But when you send something out too early, whether that’s to a literary agent or to your editor or to the publishing company you’ve hired to publish your book, this can be bad.

For example, over the summer I wrote a new chapter of a book I’ve been working on (for way too long) because I wanted to include it as a sample chapter in my book proposal. I wrote the chapter, edited it, and dropped it into the proposal with the others. Then I sent out twenty query letters, and lucky for me, in the weeks that followed, five of those agents asked to see the full proposal and sample chapters. Great!

Except a few weeks later I read back over that new chapter and realized I had pulled the trigger too early, as they say. It still needed work, which meant I had practically blown five opportunities to land an agent for the book. I have since revised that chapter, and all I can do is try again. But still.

If you’ve written a book, or if you’ve rewritten a book several times, you will eventually have to face the question: Is it done?

My typical approach to this question means defining “done” as: I have done everything I can possibly think of to this piece of writing and I feel confident letting it go. I can tell you for sure, even though I sent the sample chapter before it was truly done, I can say that when I made the decision to submit it, I did think I’d done everything I could. (I take the fact that weeks later I found a ton of revisions as a sign I’m getting smarter and better!) When it comes down to it, all we can ever do is make the best decision possible in the moment we make it.

Having an editing process is helpful for when you need to decide whether or not your book is done.

Here are a few steps you can take to make sure your book is ready to publish:

1. Revise the big picture. When you read through a draft of something, one important editing step is to analyze the structure. Is is working? Is it imbalanced?

2. Give it space. Set your draft aside for a few weeks, then pick it up and read through it again from start to finish. I always find lots of ways to improve any draft when I use this strategy.

3. Copyedit every single sentence. This means read every sentence and look for ways to make it stronger and more effective.

4. Read it aloud. This allows you to hear what your writing sounds like, and this can be very enlightening. This is a great way to find redundancies, grammar issues, and punctuation mistakes.

What does your gut tell you?

Often, after doing all four of those things I just mentioned, I know whether or not my writing is ready to for the world. Like I said, when I can honestly say to myself that it’s good and ready, I send it out. However, sometimes I can tell something is wrong, but I don’t know what to do. In this case, I usually stick it in a drawer and forget about it. I give it more space.

I once put a project off for a year for this reason. Eventually, I hired an editor to help me with it because I wanted to finish it, but I had run out of ideas for how to make it work. This was a tremendous help. (And if you’re stuck in this way and need suggestions for improving your book manuscript, I might be able to help.)

Publish your book.

Publishing is an important step forward in any writing career. You’ve got to put your work out there. And the more work you produce, the more frequently you’ll have to ask yourself the question: Is my book ready to publish? It gets easier.

In the meantime, follow these steps and develop your own revision process that will give you the confidence your work is ready for the world!

P.S. I seriously might be able to help if you’re not sure what else your book needs to make it as successful as possible. Find out more about my book manuscript evaluation services here: Book Manuscript Evaluation.