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Start with Your Accordion Mostly Closed

by Joel Friedlander on April 4, 2019 10 Comments

As a novelist, do you dive right in, or do you use “how to” guides to get you to The End? Do you write your own elevator pitch as a story planning tool?

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Marketing, Writing Tagged With: Beth Barany, book pitch, elevator pitch

The Most Important 15 Seconds in the Life of Your Book

by Joel Friedlander on December 12, 2016 5 Comments

By Joan Stewart Fifteen precious seconds. It isn’t much time. But it’s all you get if you want to convince a bookstore to buy your book, prove to a journalist that you’re worth interviewing, or persuade John Grisham to write a blurb for the cover of your mystery novel. In the world of book publishing, […]

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