Going to Market this Year

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Ernest Hemingway, fiction serialized and marketed by Scribner's Magazine

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Ed Cyzewski's blog-information

Writer's Bag-books to buy-writing

Query and Seven Key Book Proposal-solid tips 
A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

Marketing is to the author what presentation and good taste are to the best cooks and chefs.


   Here's a link to one of the best overviews re: query and book proposal for nonfiction on the Internet. I've titled it: Query and Seven Key Book Proposal Parts (A-G). Note the URL address when you follow the link. See "marketing" in there? Authors market themselves and their books from the beginning of contact with editors. And, if self-publishing, you need to wearvan editor's hat. Get outside help if you need it for objective reactions. Hire someone to assess your query, proposal, and sample chapters with a professional eye, if you are unsure. Do not ask a friend or family member for help with this part.

   What if you're self-publishing? What if you're going to publish as e-book? (See USA Today, front page, "E-book sales hit new highs," 1/5/11)? Follow the process and try to answer this question: If I did not know me, would I be interested as an editor in going further with this author's work?

   Visit Writer's Bag for books about queries, proposals, and marketing, plus other important resources for professional writing. Visit Ed Cyzewski's blog for good information and advice. Go to Newbie's , recently learned about on Facebook (Thanks for being there, Lorilyn)!


   Wishing you advancement and good marketing as a published writer this year!

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What's Your Genre?

You're writing something. Is it a book, play, film script? What is the genre, or category?
Choose from the list below.  You can have more than one; for example, the book Les Miserables is fiction/history.
Genre takes into account subject matter/topic and audience. 

A-Z list source: The Guardian, UK

1. Art 
2. Audiobooks
3. Biography
4. Children and teenagers
5. Business and finance
6. Classics 
7. Comics
8. Computing and the net 
9. Crime fiction
10. Fiction
11. Film 
12. Food 
13. Health, mind and body
14. History 

1. House and garden 
2. Music 
3. Philosophy
4. Poetry 
5. Politics 
6. Reference and languages 
7. Religion 
8. Science and nature 
9. Science fiction, fantasy and horror
10. Society
11. Sport and leisure
12. Stage
13. Travel
14. TV and radio