...om women who have thanked me for writing the book.
So Yeah - ok I admit it, my book has not sold a million copies yet, I haven't even made back initial costs yet. But on my own pri...
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...reaction is very individual, and may be more a reflection of who they are than the quality of your work.
Having said all that, I have a couple of initial reactions. The first is that...
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...ng your experience, Linda. I'm a former journalist, too, and I'm at a place with my memoir similar to where you were with your novel: encouraging initial responses from agents, but ul...
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...mirking; laughing. I became disoriented to where I was in my pitch. I couldn't laugh with them so I stopped and asked them what was so funny.
The initial title of my memoir was "It's...
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...riting the last 6 chapters. I thought it would give me a head start to correcting grammer etc. And although it has cleaned up my writing for my initial 20 twenty chapters I almost f...
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...g my book in Barnes & Noble. That excitement lasted about a week. And it was nice getting an advance, but that's gone before you know it. The initial publicity campaign was exciti...
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...after a few really fine reviews on Booklist and Kirkus and Library Journal, I noticed that while the paperback sales and ratings seemed solid and initial orders were more than I'd eve...
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An acquaintance of mine is published thru Big 5. Her initial pricing thru them was 12.99 for the ebook. I knew this was a mistake right off the bat because her book was an anthology a...
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...writer think that anybody would be jealous of her just because she's in Italy? Or that she's luckier than I am, for example? That to me was the initial judgement and assumption.
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...fine. The second one was topical--and I thought well written and timely. Moreover, I paid a lot for publication and publicity. There was a little initial blip in sales, and any sales...
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