DEALBREAKERS: 5 Reasons Your Book Won’t Sell

DEALBREAKERS: 5 Reasons Your Book Won’t Sell

Jun 3, 2026 | On Writing

DEALBREAKERS: 5 Reasons Your Book Won’t SellFrom Career Authors — write. sell. repeat. 1. Your Protagonist Is not Smart and/or Brave and/or Relatable Is not unique in some way Doesn’t drive the action from beginning to end(Not all heroes wear capes.) 2....
You’ve Got the Chops, Now Write a Break-Out Book

You’ve Got the Chops, Now Write a Break-Out Book

Sep 24, 2025 | On Writing

As an agent and author, I spend a lot of time at conferences meeting writers looking to break into traditional publishing.  And so many of these writers are THIS close to getting published. Meaning that they’ve been working hard on their craft, putting in the ten...

Infographic: The Same But Different

Sep 18, 2024 | On Writing

Text Description: What publishers want is “the same but different,” as in: Just like insert best selling book here, only different. You need to articulate that difference. Setting: Just like Castaway, only set on Mars = The Martian Point of View: Just like...

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