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Um, I’m over here, if you’re looking for me!

June 9, 2025 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

I am writing more often on Substack these days. You can go there to read those things (there’s a gradually-growing collection of stuff at our Substack, Write Well & Publish Wisely), or you could download the Substack app to your phone and read our stuff there as a Substack native. Or you could just subscribe […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: academic writing, Creativity, fiction writing, indie publishing, marketing, nonfiction, self-publishing

The Elusive Logline

August 23, 2021 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

At a recent PRESS session, an author was trying to hammer their book description down into a proper logline. This can be more challenging than it might seem, especially because a book description and a logline differ in a subtle but fundamental way. A book description is just that: it describes, to a greater or […]

Filed Under: Blog, Publish Wisely, Writing Tagged With: find your fans, marketing