Rick Killian

Lessons from a ghost . . .
Interview by Mark Malatesta of TheBestsellingAuthor.com

Interview by Mark Malatesta of TheBestsellingAuthor.com

https://soundcloud.com/rick-killian/interview-on-the-bestselling-author-radio-show The above is an interview I did with Mark Malatesta on his radio show/podcast available at his website: TheBestsellingAuthor.com. I know it's a little long, but we had a blast doing it....

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear,
since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence,
as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera
alters the meaning of the object photographed.

—Joan Didion

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The perfect storm  that creates a bestseller  (part four)

The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part four)

  (If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series yet, here are parts one, two, and three) As you likely remember reading in the first three parts of this series, bestsellers—books that sell hundreds of thousands of copies, if not a million or more—happen...

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The difference between the right word
and the almost-right word is really a large matter—
’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

—Mark Twain

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The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part three)

The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part three)

(If you haven’t read them yet, here are parts one and two.) Do you know the all-time greatest marketing tool for selling books? Despite the recent, rapid changes in publishing, this still is and has always been the best way to sell books. And it probably always will...

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Learn to trust our own judgment,
learn inner independence,
learn to trust that time will
sort the good from the bad—
including your own bad.

―Doris Lessing

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The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part two)

The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part two)

(If you haven’t read it yet, here is part one) I think most authors wish that writing an awesome manuscript was enough to have their name climb to the tops of the best of bestseller’s charts, but I know from experience that many of the books at the top of the lists...

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