7 Reasons Your Manuscript Might be Rejected

Latin: Rejection certain; hour uncertain. Roughly, it means that you will certainly be rejected; the only uncertainty is when.

And What You Can Do to Prevent Rejection It's first and foremost about a well-written story. But Continue Reading

DOGGONE FEET! Making a Book Trailer

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Guest post by Leslie Helakoski For more on the book, see this post on Shutta Crum's blog Continue Reading

Mentor Texts: Market Your Book to Teachers

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Guest post By Marcie Flinchum Atkins What is a mentor text? As a writer, do you read as many Continue Reading

Listservs and Forums for Book Marketing

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In a previous post, one commenter said, "I’d love to know how to get on listservs or good blogs to Continue Reading

Your Amazon Author Rank: Boon or Bane?

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Today, I got the following letter from Amazon's AuthorCentral service. It's a great service that Continue Reading

Top 10 YA Agents: 72 Deals

The Publisher's Marketplace ranks these agents as the top YA agents for the last 12 months. As Continue Reading

Report on the Novel Revision Retreat

Susan Field, YA Novelist.

Susan Fields of the Hands Off my Coffee and No One Gets Hurt: An Insomniac's Guide to the Writing Continue Reading

Raab Associates Donates 10 Free Publicity Consults: Random Acts of Publicity

Welcome to the last post of the 4th Annual Random Acts of Publicity week. This is the announcement Continue Reading

I Am an Author: Random Acts of Publicity

Welcome to the 4th Annual Random Acts of Publicity, where we spend a week talking about a friend's Continue Reading

Word of Mouth: Random Acts of Publicity 2012

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Welcome to the 4th Annual Random Acts of Publicity, where we spend a week talking about a friend's Continue Reading