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How To Get Published In the US or UK (If You Don’t Live There) by R.J. Anderson

How To Get Published In the US or UK (If You Don’t Live There) by R.J. Anderson

by Jill Williamson | Jun 19, 2020 | Author Life, Book Proposals, Getting Published, Guest Posts, Learning from Other Authors, Writing

Do you live outside the USA or Great Britain? Are you wondering if agents, editors and publishers in those countries will still be interested in your books? As a Canadian author who has published eight novels in both the USA and England, including at least one UK...
Mailbag: Growing a core sentence into a story synopsis and redeeming a villain

Mailbag: Growing a core sentence into a story synopsis and redeeming a villain

by Stephanie Morrill | Nov 18, 2019 | Antagonists, Book Proposals, Brainstorming, Characters, Mailbag, Synopsis

As I mentioned last Wednesday, this is our last week of blogging here on Go Teen Writers until January. This website is a labor of love for all three of us, and we need time away to learn and be creative without simultaneously producing content. “Nothing in...
How To Write Compelling Back-Cover Copy

How To Write Compelling Back-Cover Copy

by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 30, 2019 | Author Life, Book Proposals, Writing As A Business

Since we talked about hook sentences last week, it only seemed natural to address back-cover copy today. Like a hook sentence, your back-cover copy is a tool for selling your book. If you are traditionally publishing, this copy sells your book first to agents and...
How To Describe Your Book So People Want To Read It

How To Describe Your Book So People Want To Read It

by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 23, 2019 | Book Proposals, Getting Published, Marketing, Writing As A Business

One of the questions that always makes me squirm is, “What’s your book about?” Cue panic and stammering! But I’ve become much better in the last few years as I’ve worked on how to answer this even before I write the book. In the...
How To Write a Good Author Bio (When You Haven’t Done Much Yet)

How To Write a Good Author Bio (When You Haven’t Done Much Yet)

by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 16, 2019 | Author Life, Book Proposals

Once upon a time, I imagined those paragraphs about authors that I read on the back of books were written by people at the publishing house or assistants. If you’re a Big Deal Author, maybe you do have people who write those for you, but every single published...
How to Launch Your Book

How to Launch Your Book

by Jill Williamson | Aug 7, 2019 | Book Proposals, Getting Published, Learning from Other Authors, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Writing As A Business

Jill here. I’ve been published for ten years now and have launched 22 books so far with plans to launch ever more. So, I’m finally starting to get a handle on this whole “book launch” thing. Kidding. But also not really… Here’s the...
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