Publishing
How to Publish: Build Your Portfolio
If you’re already blogging and working on a newsletter to send out, you’re also going to need a collection of published material to show potential publishers. There are a few investments you can make to speed yourself along with this.
Knowing the Magazine Market
First of all you should consult a recent version of the Writer’s […]
How to Publish: Build Your Platform
While you’re working on building up some credentials and gathering information in order to improve your chances of publishing, you should also work on building up your platform of potential reviewers, supporters, and customers. This doesn’t mean you’ll need to establish some kind of fan club, but it does mean you need to start networking […]
How to Publish: Build Your Expertise
If you’re already committed to a particular topic for your future book and you’re reading as much as you can in your area of interest, the next step is to build your expertise.
For example, would a degree in your area of interest help? Perhaps you’re locked into a job you find dull or draining […]
How to Publish: Knowing Your Field
If you are planning on publishing, you’ll want to narrow some of your interests to some particular areas of expertise. Perhaps it’s parenting, religion, recipes, gardening, or a particular kind of fiction. And if you’re looking to publish fiction, you’ll need to decide if you want to write high-end literary novels, say Ian McEwan or […]
The Road to Publishing
I have added a new category simply called publishing. Within this category I’ll be listing the various steps involved in getting a book published, but more importantly, what you can do to get your work published.
While my focus will be on getting a major publisher to pick up your book, these strategies and ideas […]
When You’re Really Done Editing
There were at least five occasions when I declared to friends and family that I was officially "done" with my book Coffeehouse Theology and the two respective study guides. On the first occasion, I had just finished my first drafts and sent them off to my development editor in the fall. I knew that a […]
