What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Cover Design
So your first book has been accepted for publication: congratulations! In the next few months your face will be all over television and…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book: Being Edited
Soon after you sign a contract with a publisher, the editing process begins. A recent poll revealed that being edited is one of…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #7: Social Media
Do authors need to be on social media? Publishers say yes, but when it comes to actual data that proves it sells books,…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #6: Feelings
Writing, perhaps more than most other careers, is characterised by a maelstrom of feelings. There is frustration that you can’t get an agent…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #5: Festivals
This is the fifth part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #4: Prizes
The fourth issue on our series for expectant writers is all about literary awards: how to get your book nominated, and how being…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #3: Publicity
This is the third part in a blog series, in which Jane Rawson and I share our experience of what happens just before, during…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Book #2: Book Launches
Fabulous launch parties for which publishers foot the bill seem to be less and less common nowadays. When faced with covering the cost themselves,…
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…a Book #1: Getting a Blurb
This week myself and fellow author Jane Rawson started a new blog series, in which we dish the dirt on what happens just before,…
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