Super Hump Day

This is what no one in publishing wants me to tell you. (Even me)

I write a lot in this space about the BS that other people will tell you about the book business. I’ve also written a lot about PLATFORM, which everyone will tell you that you need in order to sell a book. That is not BS. You do need a

The Least Interesting Part of Any Book Deal

Just a note to celebrate the fact that my third client to put their proposal out into the market has just sold their book at auction in a wonderful deal with the absolute best possible editor thanks to an incredible agent. We were really lucky to get multiple major publishers

How you know someone in the book business is lying to you

I have not written a post in a while. But your extra inbox space has been my clients' gain. When I said in January I was co-writing five books this year, people looked at me like I was lying or insane. But that claim is not what the headline

The worst part of your proposal (or the part that will get you your huge deal)

“You should write about how you do proposals, because it’s really different from all the other ways I was led to believe proposals are done.” That’s what one of my clients– my first client to sell a six figure book at auction– said to me last week. And