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Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – The Ten Commandments of Writing Book Reviews

August 5th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – The Ten Commandments of Writing Book Reviews by Mayra Calvani, The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing 1. Thou shall have no other gods before the reader. The review is not about the author, nor the publisher, and especially, not about you, the reviewer. Reviews are all about [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – The Agent/Client Relationship

July 22nd, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – The Agent/Client Relationship by author Michele Wallerstein, MIND YOUR BUSINESS: A Hollywood Literary Agent’s Guide To Your Writing Career It’s always been interesting to me to see the variants in the agent/client relationship. Naturally, in the beginning a new writer wants desperately to get an agent. Transversely, [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing & Publishing a Cookbook

July 8th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing and Publishing a Cookbook by Laura Trice, M.D., author of The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook: More Than 100 Healthy Recipes for Everyday Snacking was  labor of love for Dr. Laura Trice. It began in June of 2008, when an agent asked [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – From Writer to Tweeter

June 10th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – From Writer to Tweeter by Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, co-founder of Scriptchat The first time I heard the word “Twitter,” I recoiled. What is a tweet? Who has time to tweet? Why would a serious writer ever participate in such nonsense? I had to jump in and find out. Simply put, Twitter [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Market Your Book Before It’s Published

June 3rd, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – 10 Simple Steps to Market Your Book BEFORE It’s Published by Debra Gendel and Elle Saling, d+e media Before you finish writing a book it’s critical to lay the groundwork for attracting an audience. Having a marketing strategy in place shows agents and publishers that you’ve done [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing a TV Spec

May 20th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Writing a TV Spec by Ross Brown 1. KNOW YOUR SHOW INSIDE AND OUT Step One to writing a great spec is doing your homework. Watch every episode of your series. Rent DVDs, record new episodes and take notes. How many [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Write for Recovery

May 6th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Write for Recovery by Diane Sherry Case “I have forced myself to begin writing when I have been utterly exhausted, when I’ve felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes… and somehow the activity of writing [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing Exercises

April 8th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing Exercises by Bob Yehling, The Write Time: 366 Exercises to Fulfill Your Writing Life Almost every morning, I work out for 20 to 30 minutes before starting another busy day. However, these workouts are different than my marathon training and fitness regimen. I open my journal, [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Increasing Your Blog’s Readership

March 11th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Increasing Your Blog’s Readership by Linda Fulkerson, The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Well The number-one question I get asked as a blog coach is “How do I get people to come to my blog?” Blog traffic streams flow from three areas: offline, on-site, and off-site. There are a lot of quick and easy tactics bloggers [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Traditional vs Self-Publishing

February 11th, 2010 in Moving Write Along by Write On! Online

Two Roads Diverged: Understanding Traditional and Self-Publishing Differences by Todd Rutherford, Vice President Yorkshire Publishing The publishing world has experienced change over the past several decades as all industries have, but the next 10 years will be a cocoon altering it into a different species altogether.  Many major print publishing houses have either merged or [...]