Rick Killian
Lessons from a ghost . . .
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...
Read moreThe 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
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...
Read moreLearn 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
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...
Read moreThe practice and habit of writing
not only drain the mind
but supply it too.—William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part one)
A lot of people think bestsellers just happen. While some probably do, that is far from the norm. More often than not, bestsellers come from carefully orchestrated campaigns to create them. Whether accidental or on purpose, however, bestsellers emerge from the...
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