Posts Tagged ‘rick taubold’

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Nov06

The harsh realities of book publishing—Part 2

by Write Well, Write To Sell on November 6th, 2017 at 9:15 PM
Posted In: Self-Publishing, Traditional publishing

From Rick: In response to last week’s post, I received a comment from one of my writer friends who did go with a smaller traditional publisher. He said that I failed to mention things like the costs associated with self-publishing, specifically the editing, cover design, printing, and marketing, including blog tours, cover release, and tons […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct30

The harsh realities of traditional book publishing

by Write Well, Write To Sell on October 30th, 2017 at 8:49 PM
Posted In: Traditional publishing

From Rick: Most of what the people believe about having your book published and the success of published authors is false. (1) A published author makes a lot of money. (2) A publisher will give you a substantial advance on your book. (3) Your published book will be in bookstores. (4) An agent will always […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct23

The genre trap: classifying your book

by Write Well, Write To Sell on October 23rd, 2017 at 6:52 PM
Posted In: General, Novel writing, Traditional publishing

From Rick: Recently I’ve had several questions regarding how to figure out how to classify a book genre-wise. Some of these questions have dealt with the differences between biographies and historical fiction as well as some interesting misconceptions when it comes to fiction and nonfiction and what novels are. A novel, by definition, is FICTION. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct16

A quiz on last post’s reading material

by Write Well, Write To Sell on October 16th, 2017 at 8:51 PM
Posted In: General, Self-Publishing, Traditional publishing

From Rick: I’m just coming off a busy, week-long vacation to the California National Parks (King’s Canyon, Sequoia, Yosemite, Death Valley) plus other places of interest along the way, so I’m going to keep this week’s post short. Besides, I’ll assume not all of you had time to digest that list of articles from last […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct02

A potpourri of advice on writing and things related

by Write Well, Write To Sell on October 2nd, 2017 at 8:48 PM
Posted In: General, Self-Publishing, Traditional publishing

From Rick: I’m going to be away on vacation, so there will not be a post next week. Therefore, I decided to give you two weeks’ worth of reading material to digest. You might want to read these articles because there will be a quiz afterwards. Seriously. I jest you not. The first article comes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep25

Cleaning up your manuscript—Part 2

by Write Well, Write To Sell on September 25th, 2017 at 9:13 PM
Posted In: Editing, Formatting

From Rick: In MANUSCRIPT CLEANUP-PART 1 I showed you how to clean up the most basic garbage in your manuscript file: extra spaces, errant tabs, and accidental linefeeds instead of paragraph returns. What you might find it interesting how many manuscripts I encounter, published ones, that still have some of this garbage in them, especially […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep18

Cleaning up your manuscript—Part 1

by Write Well, Write To Sell on September 18th, 2017 at 6:12 PM
Posted In: Editing, Formatting

From Rick: Back in 2013, I did a three-part series on formatting your manuscript. You can look these up under the topic FORMATTING in the categories on the left of the blog. I covered a lot of material in some detail in those posts. In 2015, I did an eight-part how-to series on self-publishing that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep11

What is the theme of your story?

by Write Well, Write To Sell on September 11th, 2017 at 8:48 PM
Posted In: Novel writing, Story Details

From Rick: Last week I put up the link to the podcast I participated in on “The Pros and Cons of Collaboration,” which ended up being the first part of two. As of this blog post, Part 2 is not yet available. You can check for it at ASPECTS OF WRITING. I will hopefully be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep04

Podcast: The pros and cons of collaboration (in writing)

by Write Well, Write To Sell on September 4th, 2017 at 8:22 PM
Posted In: Novel writing, Promotion & Marketing, Self-Publishing

From Rick: I’m going to get off somewhat easy this week here at the blog. While I was in Las Vegas last week for book signings for The Mosaic, I was also invited to participate in James Kelly’s “Aspects of Writing” podcast along with my co-author Chris Keaton and my brother Lance Taubold, who is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug21

Never open with dialogue?

by Write Well, Write To Sell on August 21st, 2017 at 9:19 PM
Posted In: Basics of writing, Dialog, Openings

NOTE: There will be no post next week because I’ll be out of town in Las Vegas doing a couple of booksignings with my “Mosaic” co-author Chris Keaton. If any of you live in the Las Vegas area, stop by and say hello. The signings are both on Saturday, August 26. The first is at […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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