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Helpful Questions for Beta Readers

February 18, 2021 by Nic Nelson 2 Comments

I had a great time at Life, The Universe, and Everything last weekend, my first time speaking at this conference! (My first time attending it at all, in fact!) I am very impressed. Definitely coming back next year as an attendee if they don’t want me to teach anything or participate on a panel. My […]

Filed Under: Editing, Publish Wisely

Building Credibility in Nonfiction

November 13, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

When a reader is simply told to believe something, rather than shown evidence, they will be less willing to accept it. The reader’s trust, if they extend it to you, will be thin and brittle if it is only based on your own plain claims about yourself. Even in nonfiction, the old fiction author’s adage […]

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: nonfiction, ShowDontTell, writing craft

“Where do I find the formatting conventions for a manuscript, or a source file for publishing?”

October 16, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

This question came up recently—again!—so I thought I’d answer it here for posterity. TFor manuscript formatting (suitable when you’re preparing the document to be submitted to contests, to agents, to acquisitions agents and publishers) use standard manuscript format. William Shunn is a bit of a codger: no one uses Courier anymore (Classic Format). Use Times […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Editing, Publish Wisely

Subsidy Publishing: Pros, Cons, and Harsh Realities

July 14, 2020 by Nic Nelson 2 Comments

Normally I might subtitle this “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” but in this case, I want to help you distinguish between the Professionals and the Con artists, as well as understand one fundamental truth about all subsidy publishers. Understand this harsh reality, unflinchingly incorporate it into your strategic thinking, and you’ll be able […]

Filed Under: Blog, Publish Wisely

LinkedIn deserves a fresh appraisal

June 23, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Hmmm, second thoughts...

After Sheri Kent’s advice at the GLAWS panel discussion this past Saturday, I definitely want to get up to speed with LinkedIn, “the platform I’m on, but mostly ignore.” This morning, I got an email from LInkedIn inviting me to this live-stream event!  It begins at 10:00am Pacific, this Friday, it’s free, and I’ll be […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely Tagged With: Lifelong Learning, LinkedIn, Online Learning

Ugly Truth of Life: you gotta pay taxes

April 30, 2020 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Congratulations, your books are finally beginning to sell well! Now the Tax Man looms. You’ll want to get the jump on him now so that he won’t haunt, or actually harm, your fledgling business in the future. The longer you ignore him, the more frightening a threat he becomes. Let’s dispatch that threat right now. […]

Filed Under: Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely

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