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  • How well I remember shopping for my "author wardrobe" when Wild Women, Wild Voices was due to be released. Thank you Jill, for your expert consultation. I felt like a wild woman in those great outfits we found... and felt like I embodied her at my presentations.
  • Great article! Like you, I decided that I'd already spent enough time trying to go the traditional route. I could spend years shopping my book or I could get it out into the world and let readers decide if it was worthy.
  • ...u see typeface like this on the comments section, it feels clean and calm. Add in a big Gotham, serif, Broadway typeface and suddenly I feel like shopping at Macy's in the '40s. Switch...
  • ...is ample hate and fear in your country -- terrorist attacks, policemen being shot, protecting felons in sanctuary cities, shootings at airports, shopping centres, Chicago daily killin...
  • ...e, so I queried for an agent, and finally signed with one. At that time, I only had one novel finished and I did not put it on Kindle while I was shopping for an agent, to me, that wou...
  • This is exactly what I need! A TRIBE--that will sweat it out with me and I with them, during the shopping for a journal/magazine phase, the wait times, the rejections, the acceptances!...
  • ...of going 3 times. Northern Minnesota on the edge of the greatest of the Great Lakes, modeled after Hedgebrook, but no meals delivered, though the shopping was done for you and your req...
  • ...time for me, Jill. I've been resisting advice to fill my days with busy-ness and focusing instead on my writing. But now that I'm about to start shopping the manuscript around, I've b...
  • Deedra and Ellen, I'm in the same boat. I really need to market a book that's out. I also really need to do final edits and start shopping around one that's essentially finished. But w...
  • A really good post. Are all your published books currently indie published? It appears that you are shopping a book to traditional publishers but do you have any other books published...