Social media, SEO, marketing and writingWe Writers are Custodians of a Proud Heritage
I have tried to impart an energy, a dynamic spirit, into the postings on this blog—not only to show the potential for today’s author, but also the changing nature of the publishing industry.
These postings should be of help and interest to students of writing, teachers, conferences for writers, college and university classes in writing and publishing, reviewers, editors, agents, booksellers, and anyone interested in the world of books.
A special feature of the blog is the specific guidance given on writing and selling all the major types of books including mass-market originals, romances, general interest titles, business and professional, children’s books, how-to’s, textbooks, scientific-technical works, computer books, humorous books, and more.
There are special blog posts on writing and selling the novel, the wide choice of nonfiction book ideas, finding material for potential best-sellers, testing a book idea before it’s developed, the importance of book outlines/proposals, the crucial importance of book promotion today, self-publishing, electronic books, the Internet as a sales and promotional tool, and finding the right publisher or agent.
Many changes are taking place in today’s book publishing industry, and authors of this era need to be aware of them. The conglomerate invasion has had its effects. These changes are having their impact on today’s methods of producing, marketing, and promoting books.
Whatever your interest in, or connection with, the book business may be, the articles on this blog are meant to guide and inform you, instruct, entertain, and above all inspire you. It will hopefully make you wonder at the happenings in the book business, astound you, make you laugh some, and enthuse you enough to try your hand at writing one or more books, if you have never participated in the great adventure of creating a book for publication.
In the words of David Dortorf, writer and book enthusiast, “Nothing is as lonely as the empty page. But the divine spirit moves us to fill it. Homer filled such a page three thousand years ago. We writers are custodians of a proud heritage. We are the bearers of the divine spirit. We must write and write whether it sells or not… or is proclaimed unpublished. Writers and authors keep the divine spirit alive. To dare to be creative is to keep the world in something of a state of grace.”
