Archive for February, 2009

Write Queen Says I Need Your Help

February 27, 2009 - 8:14 pm

I have been writing articles and blogs lately, not knowing whether you, the reader, are pleased with what you read, or even if I’m even writing about what you would like to read about.

Therein lies my problem and why I need your help. My reason for writing is not to please me, but to satisfy your need for good reading. I’m happy no matter what I write because I like to write. To know my readers are happy with my writing is worth money in the bank to me. (It better be since I don’t get paid for doing it)

I am going to first tell you where you can read my writing. I post them on .justarticles.com, .exinearticles.com, and .articlecity.com and .articlesgoaround.com and I recently started a blog and it is located at .fredabd.hwyblogs.com., then press on my account on the left.

I’d like to know who you are and what you do so that I can better serve you.

What are your hobbies? What kind of work do you do? Do you like what you do? If the right opportunity came along, would you change what you do? Husbands, does your wife work outside the home? Would you like to bring her home without getting in a financial bind?

Are you married? Do you have a family still at home? Is your family grown and out on their own? Do you have grandchildren?

What are your fears and concerns about work, money, the government, politics, and/or the market place?

In other words, I want to know what you think. What and who you are. I also need your picture, with or without your spouse, new or not so new &ndash who will know?

One thing I will not get involved in and won’t acknowledge is anything to do with religion (I hope you have that but if you don’t you have a problem that I can’t or won’t solve for you), or hateful attitudes (I can take criticism better than most) but keep your hateful attitudes to yourself.

You can write to me at gloryb2ufredadouglas.com. Rest assured I don’t outsource any of my work, and if you want an individual answer I will try to do that, but this request is to get material

for futurearticles. Dear Abby I’m not.

Freelance Writers: Publish Your Writing In A Blog

February 27, 2009 - 3:46 pm

Are you a freelance writer or interested in freelance writing? Then you should consider starting a blog to publish your writing. While it is difficult for many freelance writers to think about publishing their writing for free, consider the three different methods you can utilize to profit from with a blog.

First, you can simply focus primarily on self publishing all your work to a blog (or blogs if you write in more than one area). The numerous pages of fresh, original content will be slurped up by the search engines and drive quality, targeted traffic to your blog. You can profit from this traffic by selling advertising, using third-party advertising services such as pay-per-click or pay-per-lead programs, or promote affiliate programs and products. If you want to focus simply on your writing and your audience then pay-per-click or affiliate programs is probably the easiest method to choose.

You can publish your writing in your own free ezine, newsletter, ebook, or some other informational product and use the blog to promote those products. You can still derive some profit from advertising or affiliate programs if you choose as well, but the additional informational products give you even more venues to profit.

You can publish your own ezine, newsletter, ebook, or some other informational product that is only available for purchase and use your free blog to capture leads and promote those products. Again, you still have the option to earn from advertising and affiliate programs on your blog in addition to your earnings from sales.

You can make a very nice living from giving your writing away but if you do not want to do that then you can choose to only give away a small portion and only share the balance of your work with paying customers. Either way you will have complete power and control over your own published work and you will reap all the financial rewards from your own hard work and talent.

Freelance writers should consider self publishing with a blog using one of these three profit models.

How To Find A Literary Agent — Or How They Find You

February 25, 2009 - 9:50 pm

How to find a literary agent is the first lesson new authors must learn. Is is hopeless? Do you have to be published to find a literary agent? Fortunately the answer is no.

We asked over 60 successful literary agents:

Where Do Agents Find Clients?

Referral from one of their other clients 39%

Direct contact by the writer 33%

Referral from editors and publishers 9%

Referral from other authors not their clients 8%

Referrals from other agents 5%

Attendance at writers’ conferences 3%

Other 3%

It comes as no surprise that referrals from their current clients were the top method cited. Publishing is a relationship based industry. Contacts are extremely important. A recommendation from someone whose opinion an agent trusts always is valued and receives prompt attention. Several careers of top selling authors were launched when another bestselling author took them under their wing and introduced them to agents or publishers.

What might be surprising is that as many as one-third of the agents said direct contact from the writer was the most common way they found new clients. There is most definitely hope for the budding authors out there, sweating over the last draft of that perfect query letter to send out to agents.

Attending writer’s conference is often recommended as a way to get some face time with a literary agent and make some contacts in the publishing world. The survey shows that only 3% of agents overall find a new client as a result of a writer’s conference. But, and it’s a big but, the agents that attend are there for that very purpose. Don’t wait for the pitch sessions, talk to the agents during the break sessions and informal networking.

You can find literary agents interested in your book. Polish your query letter and pitch to those agents who represent the type of books you write.

Writing Articles To Promote Your Website

February 24, 2009 - 12:18 pm

Writing articles is an excellent way for you to get free publicity. The techniques for writing articles are numerous and beyond the scope of this article. That is why writing articles are one of the most utilized Internet marketing media today. Many marketers know that writing articles are great and powerful methods to marketing online. Although writing articles are very easy to do once you know how, getting someone to show you the tricks can be the hard part. Both the press release and writing articles are two important steps on the road to internet marketing success. I think speaking and writing articles are effective ways to keep your name out there. Writing articles are one of the oldest forms of advertising on the internet.

A quality web site should contain at least some original content. Articles make great keyword-rich content for your site. Duplicate content is penalized in the Google search engine results and many other search engines are following. Creating effective web content is a skill that is built over time and experience. Good articles are content rich. The best kept secret of traffic is still the secret of good content. Because content is still superior on the internet, writing articles provides you with a major piece of leverage online. Providing the content the search engines need is a virtual gold mine for entrepreneurs. Content is superior, this will never change on the internet. Writing web content is much like writing articles. Many people don’t realize that a website needs good content to work. Try to focus most of your time getting good content for your web site.

Here are some article writing tips. Article containing guidelines and tips for writing articles, online magazines, white papers, tutorials, educational and corporate are excellent articles to write. Here are some other writing tips to increase traffic to your site. If you don’t like writing paragraphs, you could make it a ‘Tips’ article, here is an example, 5 ways to improve your golf swing, then list the 5 good ways. The following are some good tips to master the technique of writing articles. Create a list of keywords your target audience would use to find information on your topic.

Many successful Internet marketers have found out that one of the best ways to drive traffic to their websites is by writing articles. One of the best ways to get traffic to your site is by writing articles and placing the link to your site in the author’s bio-box at the end. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. The second best way to bring free traffic to your website is writing articles. The simple answer is that it takes time to write articles, submit them and get targeted traffic to their websites. Turn words into traffic is something everyone can do to grow and expand their online business by writing articles. You can get reasonable amount of traffic by writing articles. Ever wonder how some people seem to generate traffic at the click of a button. Don’t forget about all those back links to your website, this is very important when building link popularity. Online articles may be the single best way to get traffic to your web site.

Writing articles are a great way of positioning your online business. One key point to remember, one article will not do it you need to continually submit articles to all of article sites. One strategy to use is to submit one article per week. By the end of the year you would have submitted 52 articles.

Readers: Are They Involved?

February 23, 2009 - 3:23 pm

There are two specific, yet lofty goals writers strive for every time they commit words to paper. That goal is to write in such a way as to draw their readers into the written word.

If this goal is in fictional writing the author wants the reader to become so absorbed in the story that they are both satisfied, yet sad to see the story end.

If this goal is in non-fiction the writer accomplishes the objective by relating details in a way that leaves the reader interested in the subject and with a desire to learn more.

For the successful fiction writer the term most often applied to this principle is Active Participation. When a consumer steps up the book display they are looking for certain things such as cover design, color schemes and just enough information to allow them to make their choice in thirty seconds or less. Once the reader has the book in hand they desperately want to be an active participant in the work. They want to identify with your characters and involve themselves in the plot line. They want stay up till 2 o’clock in the morning loosing themselves in a world you created. They simply want to know if you are going to be able to make that possible for them.

For the non-fiction writer the goal is to connect the reader to Active Learning. This process has seen non-fiction books include bullet points, ‘did-you-know’ segments and a link between facts and famous individuals that were involved. School textbooks are full of color and sidebars as they try to connect with students to bridge the gap between factual information to innovative ways to encourage active learning.

It is possible for both Active Participants and Active Learners to approach the written word with an inborn desire to learn and/or participate in the storyline. In this scenario the majority of the work is already done.

If a student comes to a textbook with a refusal to learn, then the best textbooks available may not be able to break through the student’s self-imposed learning barrier. Similarly, if an individual purchases a novel with an ‘impress me’ mentality and are only interested in finding any inconsistency or flaw they may have difficulty participating in the work of fiction. Then again, they didn’t really come to participate.

Ultimately what this means to the writer is there is a need to work hard in the removal of any stumbling block in an effort to allow your readers to become the active participant and active learner they want to be.

How to Succeed as a Writer

February 21, 2009 - 10:37 pm

As a professional copywriter, I’m often asked by aspiring copywriters what they need to do to succeed. Most of their questions center around writing ability. They want to know how to find out if they have the talent to succeed, or if there’s a “test” they can take that will tell them if they’re a good enough writer to actually get paid to write.

Well, for better or for worse, writing ability has very little to do with a writer’s ultimate success. (Business owners who want to write to promote their business, take note — I’m talking to you as well.)

If there was a test out there (and there isn’t by the way) but if there was, I would say the test would deal only with your attitude about writing and leave ability flat out of it.

Yes, you heard me right. Attitude over ability. That’s the key to success.

I know. It’s hard to hear. As writers, we want so badly to be told our work is good, that it has merit, that we truly are talented. I’m not sure why so many of us need that exterior validation — perhaps because writing is such a solitary, inner activity that when we do finally come up for air, we want to make sure we haven’t been wasting our time.

But to be honest, it IS possible to become a professional writer, to be paid for your work, and not be terribly talented. (In fact, I’ll do you one better. It’s even possible to force overworked, exhausted college students in English Lit classes to read your books and not be all that talented. Case in point: Thomas Hardy.)

When I look at professional writers (and I include authors in this category) the common denominator I see isn’t writing talent. It isn’t even a desire to write — I know, it’s kind of strange, but there’s more than a few of those folks out there.

It’s a desire to succeed as a writer.

If you’re determined to succeed as a writer, and have the will and the mindset to do it, then you’ll succeed at it. Period.

Now, that doesn’t mean you can skip working hard, honing your craft or, yes, actually putting pen to paper or hands to keyboard and churning out words. You have to be determined enough to do what it takes. To make the necessary sacrifices. To actually do the work. And, to know setbacks will happen and obstacles will appear and learn to take them in stride.

Not everyone is going to like what you’ve written. I don’t care how good you are. You’re going to get some, if not a truckload, of criticism along the way. But, again, that’s part of your attitude. You have to be able to take the rejection, the criticism, or the just plain mean comments in stride. You have to pick yourself up and keep going. Because you know in your heart you’re on the right path and you won’t allow those nasty people derail you.

And that, my friends, is what it takes to be a writer.

Creativity Exercise — Get the right attitude

People have written books about changing your attitude, so I’m not going to pretend this exercise is the end-all, be-all. But it’s a start.

Twice a day, place your hand on your chest and say out loud “I choose to become a successful writer. I have the attitude of a successful writer.” This is a declaration, not an affirmation. According to T. Harv Eker, author of “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind,” declarations are more powerful than affirmations. Declarations simply declare your intent rather than state your goal is already happening (which is an affirmation.) When you state your goal as if it’s already happening, a little voice inside you usually pipes up and says “that’s a load of crap” thus making it harder to change your attitude. But if you simply state the intention, then no little voice chimes in to tell you otherwise.

And, when you say it out loud, you’re letting your subconscious know, the universe know, and the cells in your body know (because they can feel the energy) what you’re intending to do. Placing a hand on your chest allows you to feel that energy. So change happens faster. If you also look in the mirror, you’ll accelerate that change even more.

Above all, remember this: Believe and it WILL happen.

Shakespeare Cipher Stories, Part 1

February 21, 2009 - 7:08 am

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? Many people doubt that, for various reasons&ndashthe most obvious one being that a barely literate actor from the sleepy village of Stratford-on-Avon could not possibly have written with such accuracy and familiarity the many scenes in the plays that invoke the classics or the pomp of nobility and royal courts. Furthermore, no manuscripts by Shakespeare were ever found, and only six Shakespeare signatures are known to exist. The signatures all look different and give the impression they were written by a man who was not used to holding a pen. Some speculate that others’ hands may have guided his own as he wrote them.

If someone other than William Shakespeare wrote the plays and poems published under his name, who was it? And did this secret author insert clues as to his real identity in his works? These are two separate questions, and one does not necessarily imply the other. Various bright Elizabethans have been championed as the true author simply based on their literary abilities, their fitting educational and social background, and plausible motives for wanting to conceal their authorship&ndashamong them Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford; Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland; William Stanley, Earl of Derby; and Sir Francis Bacon.

In the last few centuries, quite a few people in the old and the new world alike have undertaken the search for hidden messages in Shakespeare’s works that would prove such authorship. Anagrams, acrostics, word ciphers, string ciphers, letter ciphers, they’ve all been found. But are they all for real?

Anyone interested in the various ciphers said to have been found in Shakespeare’s works should read The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined by William and Elizebeth Friedman. This thoroughly researched book from 1957 is out of print but copies can be found in libraries or on the Internet. Mr. Friedman, a professional cryptologist who helped decode the tantalizing Enigma ciphers employed by the Nazis during World War II, has been called one of America’s foremost cryptographers.

The Friedmans investigated dozens of ciphers allegedly discovered in the works of Shakespeare and analyzed them according to professional criteria of what constitutes a valid cipher. It’s fair to say that in the process, little of the various cipher claims was left standing. One of the better-known efforts they showed to be unsound was that by Ignatius Donnelly. Donnelly, an attorney and politician, published The Great Cryptogram in the late 1880s. He revealed an elaborate and very impressive mathematical system of “root numbers,” “multipliers” and “modifiers” that produced messages such as “…that More low [Marlowe] or Shak’st spur [Shakespeare] never writ a word of them.” The numerical sequence to identify the word “More” on that particular given page ran like this: [root number] 516-16=349-22b&h=327-254=73-15b&h=58. 448-58=390+1=391.

However impressive Donnelly’s mathematical sequences, some who tried to reproduce his efforts came up with startling results. The Friedmans cite a Rev. A. Nicholson who took the same text passages that Donnelly started from and, beginning with the same root number and employing the same intricate method, came up with a message of his own: “Master Will I am [William] Shak’st spurre [Shakespeare] writ the play and was engaged at the Curtain.” Thus, the subjective nature of the system rendered it invalid.

The Friedmans dedicate a large portion of their book to the bi-literal cipher discovered by Mrs. Elizabeth Gallup Wells, who believed that Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare’s oeuvre. This part of the book is especially fascinating because the Friedmans themselves worked for Mrs. Gallup for several years. Once Mrs. Gallup’s decoding work gained notoriety, she attracted a benefactor, Colonel Fabian, who then employed a large research staff working on decoding the various texts. Elizebeth Friedman joined the team in 1915, William followed in 1916. They remained with her almost uninterruptedly until 1920.

Mrs. Gallup started out on solid ground, since she worked with the bi-literal cipher invented by Francis Bacon himself. Bacon published this cipher in October of 1623, just a month before the First Folio of Shakespeare’s complete works appeared. The bi-literal cipher is based on mixing two type fonts that are different enough to be distinguishable yet not too different to draw general attention. The First Folio is set in a curious mixture of italics and roman type styles, which quite naturally led to the suspicion that it may be hiding Bacon’s bi-literal cipher.

Mrs. Gallup believed, somewhat arbitrarily, that the cipher was embedded in the italic words in the plays, and deciphered lengthy passages that revealed Bacon’s authorship as well as his hidden life story. Once the Friedmans became involved in this work, they gradually came to the realization that Mrs. Gallup was the only one at the research center who could distinguish between the two fonts and produce meaningful messages. Everyone else invariably failed. Furthermore, Mrs. Gallup herself was unable to reproduce passages she had previously deciphered without considerable deviations. She also frequently omitted or added letters to make the cipher work. An FBI expert consulted by the Friedmans in the 1950s proved that there was much variation between individual italic letters in the Folio and that there were no characteristics that supported the strict classification into two fonts.

Since Mrs. Gallup’s work could not be reproduced independently by other decipherers, the Friedmans concluded that although Bacon’s bi-lateral cipher itself is a sound cipher, Gallup’s work was biased and unacceptable. That is not to say there couldn’t be a bi-literal cipher hidden in Shakespeare’s works; it only means that if there is one, it hasn’t been found yet.

References

Bacon, Francis &ndashDe Augmentis Scientiarum (1623)

Donnelly, Ignatius, The Great Cryptogram (1888)

Friedman, William F. and Elizebeth S., The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined. (Cambridge University Press, 1957)

Wells Gallup, Elizabeth &ndash The Biliteral Cypher of Sir Francis Bacon Discovered in His Works and Deciphered by Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup (1899)

See William Stevenson, A Man Called Intrepid.

Cross Pens: Putting Your Imagination Into Words

February 19, 2009 - 10:05 pm

Writing as an Art

Not many are born writers but for sure, there are a talented few. Many view writing as a mode of human expression but for some, it is also a form of art. If a painter creates majestic and colorful artworks and masterpieces using a brush and a canvas, a writer uses his or her pen to appropriately blend wonderful words and sentences into one engaging literary artwork. For a writer, it all starts to one’s boundless imagination, a conjuring of thoughts and mental pictures all fueled by one’s creative ideas. These ideas are influenced by one’s biases or experiences but either way, a writer’s great perspective on things cannot be denied.

Putting Into Words

Writers can always think of ideas every single day, as long as their brains never cease to function. But putting into words all the thoughts created inside one’s head is a different story. That’s where the challenge for a writer begins. And so are the questions. How will a writer be able to convey his or her thoughts to the readers without sounding too conventional, stereotypical or bland? What will be the style of writing that he or she will employ? And what will be the structure of the article that a writer will use in order to coherently present a series of great ideas to people?

Start Writing

Usually, it is quite easy to know for oneself if one has a passion for writing. Not only you will find a potential writer brimming with creative ideas but you will also find him holding a paper or pencil almost all the time. Or if a writer is already technological, then he or she might be typing in the keyboard most of the time as he or she maintains an online blog or journal perhaps. Whatever might be the case, a writer views a pen not just a simple tool for writing but the main life of his writing career. Without a pen, there will be nothing that will serve as a bridge to channel out all the ideas that are conjured one’s head. After all, many writers live up to the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Cross Pens: Your Excellent Choice

As we view the importance of pen on a writer’s life, we now search for possible options of choosing the best pen that suits every writer’s style. However, there are a few types of pen that can totally guide a writer’s way towards a successful literary expression of one’s personal ideas. Cross pens are one of them.

As many would say and recommend, cross pens are great writing tools that combine function and form to unleash the best writer in you. Crafted with sleek designs and armed with state-of-the-art writing technology, one won’t surely go wrong on choosing cross pens as a writer’s way of expressing him or herself. And like many other pen products, almost all cross pens can be personalized so that a writer will really feel the immense attachment or ownership that he or she associates to a specific pen.

There are surely many types of cross pens available for anyone, and not just for a writer. Most cross pens have their own catchy brands like Townsend cross pens, Apogee cross pens, Classic Century cross pens and a lot more. There are also desk sets that can be bought for one to properly store one’s cross pens. And just in case one’s cross pen will run out of ink, one doesn’t really need to buy a new one as cross pen refills are readily available for usage.

These and a lot more benefits await for those writers, or even non-writers, who will decide to choose using cross pens as their ideal pens suited for anyone’s lifestyle.

How To Write And Publish Your Own Book

February 17, 2009 - 12:59 pm

There are great rewards when writing a book for the first time. There is a great sense of accomplishment by the individual person once they have a complete manuscript in their hand.

The other reward is obviously money; if you write a good book that is marketed correctly you will receive a reward.

Depending on how well you market your book will depend on the size of the pay cheque.

The first step to writing a good book is…Writing the book.

Start on your computer or with a piece of paper and start writing; don’t go back to correct spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, sentences that don’t make sense. Just keep writing.

Set yourself a target each day, say you want to write 20 pages in a day, then stick to it and do it.

In a short amount of time, hopefully in less than two weeks you will have a rough manuscript.

The next step is to get your book proof read and copy edited. The copy editor will make any grammatical changes, correct spelling mistakes and get your book reading well.

You then need to design the layout of your book, this is important because the book must have sufficient gaps, payout in the correct paces so the readers don’t get tired.

You then need to design a cover for your book, you can do this yourself or you can find a cover designer on the Internet.

Next you need to get an ISBN number; you can usually find these on the Internet. You can buy these from a few sources; the best price I have seen them for is $55.00.

All books need printing, and you need to find a printing company, I would suggest Gardeners or Book Force. Upload your book to their websites; they will take care of all the printing and distribution for you.

The penultimate step is to deposit your books in the legal deposit library; this is a requirement that 6 copies of each book written need to be deposited to qualify as an actual book.

The final step is to register a book registration company; in the UK it’s Nielsons Book Data. You need to find out what it is in the USA. If you are a resident there.

You all done, your book will appear on Amazon and other online book shops, all you have to do is go out and promote your book.

Get out on the road, hire a PR agency, get on your local radio station, write to the newspapers.

Good Luck and Good Writing.

Write The Bestseller-kind-of-novel

February 15, 2009 - 7:54 pm

“TAKE THE MYTH OUT OF BESTSELLER, AND WRITE YOU ONE!”

When we see the word “Bestseller,” it usually means selling a great number of books, starting around 30-50 thousand copies. Certain bookstores report the sales to certain lists and the book is listed as a bestseller. Well, many, many bookstores that sell lots of an author’s books do not report to those lists. Then there are ordinary writers like you and me who sell thousands of books on their own and they don’t report to those lists. Those lists usually don’t include self-published or small press writers. Many bookstores and lists don’t report to Publisher’s Weekly, the New York Times and USA Today. What a huge disparity!

But I want to share with you something all such books have in common, reported and unreported&ndash all are rather well written, most have a fresh concept, and all are pretty well edited. So in this equation, we know that bestsellers have three things in common: 1) they’re well written. 2) Have a fresh concept, 3) they’re well edited&ndashno typos or verb-noun disagreement, no misspelling, or run on sentences&ndashonly if the writer is breaking the rule to prove some point.

I’ve read quite a few bestsellers that are simple and straightforward, some with twists and turns, but they all have those three qualities in common, and my writing experiences allow me to take the myth out of how they get to be bestsellers. To show that you have a bestseller in you. We all have one; it just needs to be written, edited, polished and promoted. I took five years to write my bestseller-kind-of- novel, but I had no one to teach me the next step. I’m moving toward it in the trial and error mode. I want to make this easier for you. These articles are dedicated to those of us who want to be bestsellers. Ordinary sales just aren’t enough for us. We’re experimenting with writing the bestseller-kind-of-book, polishing and promoting it to bestseller status. I’ll share every tip with you as we go along.

Now back to Bestseller. I consider a bestseller as a book that is well written, has a fresh concept, and is promoted and sold to a lot of readers. That’s exactly what Mark victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) did. He sold those little simple books from the back of his car until he found his path to becoming a bestseller&ndashgetting publicity is one of the paths. He started doing lots of radio interviews every day. But his way might not be your way. It all depends on your book. And then, it could be your way. We shall see.

My name is Martha Tucker, and I’m sure you’ve seen my novel on the Internet somewhere&ndashThe Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires. It’s a romantic inner city political thriller. I ask you to become familiar with it because I’m going to be using it to explain certain very necessary principles to you&ndashread the three free chapters: .urbanclassicbooks.com. The novel has two significant 5-Star Reviews and racking up more every day. The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires is proof that your number one priority is to write a Bestseller-kind-of-book. After it was completed and edited, it took another year to get the edit I wanted. Never be discouraged.

If your book is dull, objectionable, thrown together with a weak plot and cardboard characters, no amount of promoting is going to give it legs to stand on as a bestseller. While you’re over on my website&ndash.urbanclassicbooks.com, look at the praises my novel got. If you want to see the techniques I use in action, the secrets I applied, then read chapters from my book on my website.

I am going to be using live examples, even by page numbers, to teach you how to write the bestseller-kind-of-novel, because fiction is more difficult to promote than nonfiction. With nonfiction, thousands of people need to know exactly what you’re sharing and are willing to pay right then according to fulfill their need. But fiction is born into a competitive world&ndashmostly dominated by the popularity of the author’s name&ndashsports figures, actresses, actors, the queen, the president, the President’s wife. Fiction books that immediately become bestsellers are usually those written by big name celebrities or well-known authors. Don’t blame the publisher for knowing that people recognize those names and will pay. Those names get free publicity on Good Morning America, The Today Show and USA Today, and Oprah isn’t out of the question.

But don’t fear. There is a way to sell tons of fiction books for ordinary people like you and me. You have to do your part to change your life in one fell swoop&ndashfrom struggling writer to sought after, wealthy author.

Now read the free opening chapters of The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires and consider the “who, what, when, where and how” in this novel. See how those elements were smoothly tied together so they don’t seem like separate parts. Read the prologue and answer the questions for yourself. When you finish my articles you never have to settle for selling your novel to only your circle of family and friends. You can be a bestseller! Till next time###

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