Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of http://Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Helen Barer author of Fitness Kills.
Helen is a native New Yorker and has spent many years as a writer of non-fiction ranging from cookbooks to television...
A Conversation With Frank Mcgee Author Of A Song For The World: The Amazing Story Of The Colwell Brothers And Herb Allen: Musical Diplomats
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of http://www.Bookpleasures.com, is excited have as his guest Frank McGee, author of A Song for the...
No one is born a novel writer. But do you believe that we all have the capability to be writers? Impossible as it may seem but the answer is yes! If we have the passion for it and if we strive to make it happen, novelwriting can be as easy as writing ABC. Writing is actually not a very...
A Bad Literary Agent Can Be Worse Than No Agent At All.
Types of things to watch out for with agents:
* Charging the author a fee up front, to be accepted as a client. Can be called a reading fee, or a monthly “office expenses” charge. The best agents, and most...
1. Dont set yourself a writing routine or stick to it.
2. Always make sure that doing your writing is at the bottom of your list of priorities, and even when you are writing, if something else you have to do that day springs to mind, then go and do that instead.
3. If one of your...
Are you running short of ideas for your blogs or articles? Is generating fresh ideas for writing becoming difficult? By following the techniques discussed in this article, you will be a writing power house.
1. Subscribe to a dozen RSS feeds on various subjects you are most interested in....
Tech-writing is a tricky business. Its not a very high profile industry, so theres not much support around. Follow these 10 quick tips, and youll be well on your way to a satisfying tech-writing career.
1) Follow a sensible career path
STEP 1: Start in a team
STEP 2: Stay only...
Eager to see your byline in magazines like Smithsonian, National Geographic, Parade or Outside? Here are 10 tips on getting past the threshold of “Maybe” to “Yes” at top magazines.
1. Put timing on your side. You can change a perennial story, where there’s...
10 Resume writing tips to land you your dream job
Imagine yourself sitting in an employer’s desk with hundreds of resumes falling in on your desk against a vacancy declared by you in your company.
Number of vacancy – 1, and number of applicants – innumerable....
Ten Things To Do
Liverpool is a city in celebration. Wining the 2008 Capital City of Culture award has brought fresh investment intended to match the amenities of the old city to the passion of its devoted citizens. With money poured into renovating the city centre, improving shopping...
Many people are under the assumption that proofreading is an innate ability. The reality is that it is actually an acquired skill. By following these tips, you can transform yourself into the expert proofreader youve always dreamed of becoming!
1. You are the best judge of yourself. By...
Let’s face it: some kids just don’t like to read. Increasingly, parents, teachers, librarians, and editors are looking for books that will appeal to reluctant readers. When I was writing The Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House), I read hundreds of...