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My California friend Mitch has given me some plugs in his Paper.Li newspaper and this is because of a LinkedIn group. One of the LinkedWorking St. Louis members connected with me in February. We found synergy and are now working on a project together. He connected me with three fabulous South Florida women and we [...]
What you must do:
1. Edit and proofread.
2. Check out what a publisher actually publishes and submission guidelines.
3. Don’t do this:
(Group email listing every email in the Association of Canadian Publishers’ directory in the “TO” box.)
Friday, October 27,200612:23 PM Looking_for _a _publ isher.pdf Looking for a publicher
Estimable [...]
The copyright page is that page on the left-hand side where you find information about the publisher, ISBN, and the library cataloging number. This is also where publishers leave instructions to the reader, such as whether the material is shareable, disclaimers, and publisher contact information.
Before you send your book to layout, here are some [...]
Here is my friend Francisco delivering a Toastmasters’ speech to his local chapter, but also sharing it worldwide.
Why is this significant? Viewing this video will open the door to many possibilities. We can create and participate in virtual events without having to leave the confines of our homes.
Francisco and I only met in [...]
Somewhere along the way, this key point has been completely forgotten.
This doesn’t seem to be taught in schools anymore — journalism school, public relations classes, or marketing.
A friend of mine told me this recently:
It is unbelievable. at my school, they taught us that LinkedIn was the one and only way to [...]
A fascinating report on Al Jazeera’s Listening Post reported that street art is a clue to how a population is feeling.
Long before the Arab Spring erupted, before there were physical actions in Bahrain and Libya, graffiti waged its own quiet revolution to spread its media directly to the people on the street. When Internet [...]
I received an interesting email tonight from a passing acquaintance who wants me to like her Facebook page.
While Facebook allows you to send out requests to your followers to follow your page (or blog) — and I admit I have used that in the past — is it me or does it seem rather [...]
One of the more inspirational stories transpired in the NHL in 2001. Montreal center, Saku Koivu announced early September, that he was diagnosed with cancer. It was at the time of the Team Canada evaluation camp where Mario Lemieux, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease several years prior, held a press conference, along with one [...]
Seth Godin has it going on. He lands in my inbox every morning, sometimes twice a day, and he provides great insight and real meat on how to connect with people and market intelligently.
His books are genius. The last one I bought, We Are All Weird, took me two clicks to receive it in [...]
The interview talks about the business of publishing, speaking, and yes, even hockey.
First question didn’t need much thought:
If you could tell one sentence to every prospective author out here, what would it be?
Writing is a business, not a lottery ticket.
Here’s the link to the rest.
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