well, run, don’t walk, get yourself a copy of APE!!!! before you start going bananas, check it out…
Love the ebook, APE. as a writer, editor, publicist, who has written books, edited other people’s books and memoirs as well as promoted best-selling authors books, it made me laugh, giggle, and smirk… Guy Kawasaki speaks in REAL plain everyday language talk… and gives the REAL down and dirty tips of the who, what, where and how of self-publishing… includes the challenges of traditional publishing… and provides real life examples of how to be successful and do the future NOW.
Too many people want to write a book and have unrealistic expectations. As Guy talks about, a lot of people want to write for the wrong reasons, fame, money, and to impress others. But these reasons do not a best seller make. It is also a BIG DREAM of SOMEDAY, the day between Sunday and Monday and it never arrives. Either they do not finish the manuscript, try to take easy shortcuts, end up getting discouraged by agents and traditional publishers, eventually use a vanity publisher, or give up altogether.
I love that he included a link to the youtube video So you want to write a novel and all of the other live links.
Authors must be entrepreneurs and publishers as well as good writers. Having something to say is vitally important along with multi-tasking, wearing a number of different hats, juggling a bunch of balls in the air all at the same time.
It is always best to learn from someone who has been there and done it and made it and Guy Kawasaki makes it doable with 1,2,3 steps pointing the way home.
As Kawasaki says:
“The relationship between author and publicist is usually the most contentious one in publishing because no author has been happy
with his publicist in the history of mankind. (No publicist has been happy with her author in the history of mankind either, though!e relationship between author and publicist is usually the most contentious one in publishing because no author has been happy
with his publicist in the history of mankind. (No publicist has been happy with her author in the history of mankind either, though.”
So if you are not going to be happy with your publicist, publisher or agent, you may as well get over yourself and be all three (or more) and become a whole human in the process. (Transformation of the soul of a writer after writing a book)… shhhhh…
http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/12/11/25-gifts-for-writers/
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