Archive for August, 2005



Heidi Miller’s mentions The Author-izer on her podcast and catches the attention of at least one would-be author.

How to Give Good Referrals

Referrals are the lifeblood of most small businesses. Everyone wants to get referrals, but not everyone knows how to give them. If you give good referrals, you’ll build goodwill, get more business, and increase your income.

The six-figure book advance, like the New York Times bestseller, is the object of many a writer’s fantasy. Whether it’s also a realistic goal is something else again.
Can you really get a six-figure book advance?
When Susan Page wrote The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book in 1997, she included the following list of […]

When would you choose not to market your book? When there’s no market for it.

Ghostwriters need to be as invisible to readers as the keyboards on which they type. The personality which comes through the writing has to be the author’s. To be a successful ghostwriter, you gotta have style.

The Conversations with Experts series, hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff, has several weeks of free teleclasses with book publishing and marketing experts lined up.

Sign up now to hear Susan Harrow tell you how to get a 6-figure book advance–the kind you can use to pay your ghostwriter!