Rebecca Cornish Talley

Rebecca Talley | April 12, 2010

Attending writing conferences can be advantageous in many ways. See this post for reasons why it’s a good idea to attend a writing conference. Another reason?

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Tags: Gone With The Wind, pitching idea to editor, writing, writing a book, writing a novel, Writing Fiction

Rebecca Talley | February 8, 2010

You’ve written your book and you have a publisher interested in it. The next thing you know, you have a contract in the mail.
If you’ve never signed a publishing contract before, you’ll want to research the language specific to this type of contract.
Your contract may include:
Rights Granted to the Publisher. This assigns the copyright [...]

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Tags: Author, Book, business of writing, Manuscript, publishing, Royalties, writing a book, Writing Fiction

Rebecca Talley | January 28, 2010

You may think that once you’ve written your book and it’s been published, all of your work is done. Wrong.
Your work is only beginning. In the United States, well over 150,000 books are published each year. That’s a high number of books to compete for consumers’ attention. Of course, we’re well aware of the breakout [...]

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Tags: Author, blog tour, publishing, virtual book tour, writing a book, writing a novel, Writing Fiction

Rebecca Talley | January 25, 2010

I’ve discussed doing a virtual book tour. What else can you do to promote your book?

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Tags: book promotion, Facebook, Google Alerts, promotion, Shelfari, Social network, Twitter, Website, writing a book, writing a novel, Writing Fiction