Diane Eble's Blog (12)

It's almost unheard of these days in publishing for an author to get a high five-figure book advance, let alone six figures.



It's difficult even to get any literary agent to take on your book, let alone one of the top literary agents in the country.



Yet one author managed to do both.



On Thursday, I'm going to grill this author, Noah St. John, on how he did this.



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Please join me and my guests, Stephen James and David Thomas, authors of the new book, Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys on tonight's Virtual Book Tour at 5 pm Pacific/6 Mountain/7 Central/8 Eastern.



We will be answering questions submitted at… Continue

Just want to let you know quickly about an exciting resource for anyone who is interested in getting a book published by a publisher who will pay you--perhaps even a high five-figure advance.

Tonight, literary agent, author of 60 books, and editor Terry Whalin will be grilling 8 top publishing professionals on what makes a book proposal stand out to them. What makes them champion the book to the

rest of the publishing house so that the publisher will happily pay…

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I have posted a new article, in answer to Lorraine's question from my last teleseminar:

"Does the length of the title make any difference to the salability of the book?"

I answer this question in the article, "…

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I would like to invite you to this week's special teleseminar, which will focus on two things:

• your questions about finding your best-selling book title
• a preview of what I'll be covering on my course on "…

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I just signed up for something I think you too will get excited about. It's a new way to get lots of blog traffic to your site.

It's called Blog Rush, and it automatically puts fresh content related to your site your blog--constantly.

Why is this good for an author?

For one thing, the search engines just LOVE fresh, relevant content. It will boost your rankings--effortlessly.…

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I came across an amazing book called "The First Hundred Million" that everyone in publishing should, in my opinion, study carefully.



It was written by a man named E. Haldeman-Julius, who in the 1920s published and sold 100 million "Little Blue Books." Simon & Schuster asked him to write up the story of how he did so, and the book "The First Hundred Million" is about what he learned.



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Today is the LAST DAY of the early-bird special bonus for the "Publishing Insider's Guide to Choosing Your Best-Selling Title" 5-module telecourse.

If you're one of the first 7 people to sign up TODAY you will also receive the "…

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I don't know if you were on the call last night, but I answered LOTS of questions. You can now listen to the replay.

There's also an early-bird special offer that ends at 5 p.m. (Central) TODAY that I want you to know about, before time runs out.

Even though I answered many questions on the call, I realized I could not do the topic justice in…

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I hope you will join me on my teleseminar tonight as I answer questions submitted, both before and during the call (as there's time) about how to choose a best-selling title.



If you want to ask a question ahead of time, you can still do so. Asking now gives you more of a chance I'll answer it tonight, since I do like to prepare good answers ahead of time.



You may also ask a question during the teleseminar if you are near… Continue

This is only one of the questions I'll be answering on the teleseminar, which takes place TOMORROW, Tuesday, August 28, 2007.

If you haven't yet asked your question about how to choose your best-selling title and subtitle, please do so now.

When you ask your question, you'll get all the call-in details. You'll be able to listen over the phone or online, so…

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Do you have a question about publishing, marketing your book, Virtual

Book Tours, or how to make a living from your book?



If so, I invite you to ask it now, and then join me for a live teleseminar on Tuesday, July 24, at 8

p.m. Central, when I will answer these questions. (If you can't make

it, you will get a link to the replay page later--if you sign up.)…



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