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Featured Blog Posts – August 2007 Archive (4)

Poetry Books: Best Options

Question from Poet: I'm 15 years

old and love writing. It's my true passion. I write free verses, modern

poetry. I was just looking for a good publisher. Could you please

assist me through this? I really want to bring out new poetry to the

audience, because people seem to have forgotten poetry and go for Harry

Potter or other fiction genres. I really know I can do this, and will

try my best. I'm still writing and have around 20… Continue

Added by John Kremer on August 24, 2007 at 12:00am — No Comments

How is your story different?

I formed a friendship with the editor of my publisher and one day asked her what she looked for in manuscripts. Her answer..."A different take on the same old story." Makes sense doesn't it?

She confided in me that they received a lot of manuscripts on domestic violence but most of them were about being abused and still being alive, so there! No directions on how to get out of the relationship safely, no guidance, no helpful advice. It was almost like they needed to just get it out of…

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Added by Dianne Schwartz on August 23, 2007 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Spend Less, Tell More Stories

Seth Godin always has interesting points to make. In his post today at his blog, he made the following point, one that I've been trying to get through to people for a very long time:

"The art of marketing is not finding more money to do more marketing. It's figuring out how to tell a story that spreads with the resources you've got."

So many self-publishers and new authors want to throw money at… Continue

Added by John Kremer on August 19, 2007 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Looking for Great Stories, Too!

I've been compiling a book featuring 101 great and unusual ways to market your books -- as told by various authors and publishers. I already have some great stories. So send me your stories as well. Thanks. Email: johnkremer@bookmarket.com.

Or, you can add your story here as a comment to this blog post. That way other people in the network can read the stories as well. Again, thanks.

Added by John Kremer on August 3, 2007 at 12:31am — No Comments