Your Book Needs a Hook (Here’s Why)
By Allison K Williams A few weeks ago, literary agent Jessica Berg and I listened to authors talk about their books for eight hours a day, for three days straight. We’d gone to the...
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By Allison K Williams A few weeks ago, literary agent Jessica Berg and I listened to authors talk about their books for eight hours a day, for three days straight. We’d gone to the...
A complete guide to getting us to say yes to your story idea.
Pitching is an art, and whether or not you nail it, it’s crucial in order to succeed in any market, not least the games industry. For indie developers, whose main focus is making...
Learn how to create a persuasive elevator speech that hooks listeners immediately.
By Michelle Tamara Cutler Going into 2026, I set manageable goals: take care of my elderly mother whose health was in the balance and finish my nonfiction book proposal about carin...
Your clients are not buying your service. They are buying the transformation on the other side.
Struggling to finish your brilliant book idea? BookBud.ai writing software gives you tools you need to write the book you’ve always imagined. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the...
In fast-moving environments where investors, journalists and customers rely on quick interpretation, the first sentence or the first 10 seconds often determines everything that fol...
Massive spoiler alert for "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo."
Writing a script is really, really hard. You have to fit a dozen pieces together to create an experience that engages a reader and creates an emotional journey. And that can take m...
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A book can be the single most powerful tool for a coach, consultant, or speaker to build authority, expand reach, and create new revenue streams. But a book is also a product, a ma...
by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell September of 2009 was Dan Brown week in the world of publishing. It had been six years since his mega-hit The Da Vinci Code. There was a lot of...
Todays’ headline may seem like a blinding glimpse of the obvious in theory, but from the stories I’m hearing from my students and from other pitching coaches it doesn’t seem to be...
Understand the audience. Then show why it matters. If your pitches aren’t landing, the problem is likely your approach. Media relations now runs on two tracks, where there’s legacy...
Imagine seeing your self-published book in the real world. A poetry collection face-out in an independent bookstore. A photo book stacked neatly in a museum shop. A novel featured...
Today’s post is a quick-and-dirty outline for “publishing yourself” in 2026 and beyond, based on presentations I’ve given for writers organizations and at Rainforest Writers Retrea...
Many people fancy themselves writers, or are sitting on a great idea that they just haven’t put on the page.
Prepare your pitch, wait for your moment, and go all in on your ask.
The journey of an author begins after the book is published!(The Happy Quitter) Stepping away from the blogging world, pitching my book to strangers, who, let’s face it, might not…
Here’s How To ‘Friction-Maxx’ Your Thriller Into A Better Book
(And what to fix before you send the next email) If you’ve been pitching your art to companies and hearing absolutely nothing back, I know how discouraging that can feel. It’s so e...
A new book explores how technology and a host of maverick innovators have given rise to an exceptional crop of baseball playersIn a 1940 publicity stunt, the Cleveland Indians’ fla...
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