Oops. Should frame vook, new e-horizons in ref to queries: do queries with clear possibilities for these venues get interest? #askagent # @KOrtizzle no vooks? LOL. They do sound a little creepy. But who knows, with the iPad coming out. #askagent in reply to KOrtizzle # what new opportunities are agents seeing in the growth [...]
The operations/management section is one of the easiest sections for a writer to fill in on a business plan. [Unless you're James Patterson, who runs more of a writing corporation (he hires other writers to write novels based on his ideas and outlines, and has several editors assigned to him at his publisher). If you [...]
I am remiss. BenBella Books has reissued an updated version of Secrets of The Dragon Riders, which contains fabulous essays by YA authors on the series by Christopher Paolini (Eragon). We all updated our essays after Brsinger was released. Mine, entitled “My Dragon, Myself” was fun to write and fun to update — I want [...]
I took a course in business planning last month. Since I live in Maine, and small local businesses abound here, I was in among those who were going to do roofing, massage therapy, dog washing, and a few people who weren’t sure what they were going to do. In short, we were a diverse group [...]
So, after yesterday’s brief mission statement, the Business Description section will be a little more meaty. A typical business plan includes: type of business (product/service/merchandising); status of business (start-up, expansion, date business begins operation); form of business ownership (sole proprietor, partnership or corporation); profit potential (special features, customer benefits, experience and qualities of owner and [...]
So, I’ve been meaning to share a template for a writer’s business plan here, based on what I’ve learned from developing a distinctly non-writing business plan for my new venture. It’s not quite as simple as it sounds (no business plan is as straightforward as we’d like, or so I have discovered). There are a [...]
There is an advantage to coming from a family where both sides are big Irish Catholic broods (not the 10-12 children of my grandparents’ generation, but 5 on my dad’s side and 6 on my mom’s). At holidays there were always family get togethers, lots of cousins and aunts and uncles. Many of my characters [...]
Back when my dad was a kid (the 40s), folks figured you only went to a hospital to die. It wasn’t just that medicine was still trial and error, it was the infection rates that were so dangerous. American medicine had made major strides in this by the time I was growing up. Unfortunately, we’re [...]
Last night I finally let the revisions of my newest book out of my hands. I’ve been holding on tightly, making notes, doing conflict charts, thinking about character motivations and story themes. This book was first drafted back in the fall of 2007, for Nanowrimo. It has been revised and overhauled three times since then [...]
52 degrees! Outside in the sun, enjoyed the day. # Powered by Twitter Tools
