How to Keep
Going With When the Going Gets Tough and the Tough Wanna Head
for Haagen-Dazs
Motivations for
for writers. Things to do to get over the wonderful life of
rejection and set-backs. How to stay focused and not give up.
Are We Having
Fun Yet?
A humorous
and not-so-funny look at what it takes to be a full time
writer. Why we do what we do and how to cope with everyday
life when we need to be working. Also covers how to juggle
family and work, and how to deal with editors, fans and
agents.
You Can't
Climb the Ladder with Your Foot in Your Mouth.
Whether
published or not, you have to choose your friends carefully
and your enemies even more so. 10 faux pas that can stop your
career dead in its tracks. How to maximize your potential and
not get yourself into swamp water.
When Can I
Quit My Day Job?
A realistic look
at the business side of writing. How much money is there to be
made? When you can realistically expect to make a living and
what to do in the meantime.
Who Squeezed
My Charmin?
How to make your book irresistible to readers and
editors. Whether published or not, we all have to sell our
books and ourselves to other people. Learn how to read others
and know what to say to make them take your book home and
treasure it
The Fine Art
of Schizophrenia:: How
to be more than one person at more than one publisher and not
go nuts
This is a realistic look at how to build more than one career
while maintaining a healthy life that doesn't leave you burned
out. Can a writer really build more than one sub-genre or
genre?
Heroes who
sizzle and Heroines
who do more than shiver
Making a Hero Tick and a Reader Sigh
Schizophrenia
II: Writing for More than one Genre or Sub-Genre
Is the Grass
Purple on the Moon? Believable World Building
Thinking
Outside the Box: Promotion that Works.
Building a
Site That Gets Readers to Come Back
Time Management for Real People
Who Actually Want to Have Lives
What's the
Game Plan? How to Plot a Series that Works.
The Great
Juggling Act: Balancing Historical Accuracy with Reader
Expectation.
To Agent or
Not to Agent, That is THE Question.
The pros and cons of
agenting yourself or letting someone else have control of your
career.
There Will Be
Pork in the Trees By Morning.
Ever been told pigs will fly
before you sell that idea? Me too! Learn how to take an "unmarketable" book and
sell it from the woman who has made a career selling
unmarketable books.
