These three items should be in your submission packet. Leading up to and away from publication you will use your bio on your websites, blogs, press releases, and as a blog guest. You'll also need to keep your Bio up to date.
Your Blurb is your selling tool. Storefronts, Amazon, B & N and others will use your blurb to get potential readers to buy your book. You will be using this on websites, blog posts, events and press releases.
Your Excerpt is not, and shouldn't be mistaken for those several 'free' or 'look-inside' pages on various sales sites. This is less often used in blogs but who knows when someone will ask?
On Wednesday we are going to talk about creating a buzz, letting potential readers know and making sure your book, website and other sales paths are accessible.
Join us on Wednesday and Sunday as we discuss Bios, Blurbs and Excerpts. We all need them. What makes them effective? What tanks a potential sale?
Do You Have a Bio? How Old is it?
Things happen. Children are born. Jobs change. Children fly the nest. We move to new towns. We change our hair color. We age backward. We might even change our relationship status.
Life happens.
Are all of your bios up-to-date?
Even a Pen Name's bio needs a little dust blown off, now and again.
Join us, Sunday March 24th in the Chat Room at 7PM EDT
(Today's Newsletter was delayed by a deer who darted across the freeway. The driver is fine, the car... the deer... )
Another Self Editing Checklist
There must be as many editing checklists as there are editors.
Revision and Editing the Two Headed Shoulder Vulture
March is Revising and Editing Month at the Writers Chat Room.
I believe you cannot do a revision without doing some editing. I think the two actions are symbiotic.
Mostly.
At the end of the re-writes, the cuts and the spelling corrections and picking at nits, a writer ends up in full-on edit mode. But this full-on mode happens at the end.
Then you get to work on your submission packet.
Pure editing, to me, is when a publisher or a paid editor or close friend begins to read your work. Of course, an editor’s suggestions might send you back into the revision phase again.
I hope you’ll come to chat and share your feelings on the twin monsters named Editor and Revisor. We should talk about the differences. I will be leaning on my Long Ridge Course Material and Understanding the Difference between Revising and Editing and Why You Need Both.
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