by Blue Pencil Consulting | Apr 16, 2010 | Blogging, Book Proposal, Press Releases, Public Relations, Writing
If you’d like to brush up your skills or learn something new about writing a book proposal, business blogging, or crafting press releases, come take a course with me this summer. I’m teaching three non-credit courses on these topics, all offered through the...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Apr 15, 2010 | Research, Social Media
Those 140-character messages so many of us send out on Twitter aren’t as ephemeral as we might have thought – in fact, they’ll be saved for posterity and will become a tool for research and the kind of time travel historians do. This week, the Library of Congress...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Mar 31, 2010 | Book Proposal, Platform, Publishing
Thinking of trying to land a non-fiction book contract with a publishing house? Here’s food for thought from an interview with New York literary agent Harvey Klinger (www.harveyklinger.com), featured on mediabistro.com’s GalleyCat for March 31, 2010: “I realize that...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Mar 19, 2010 | Editing, Writing
Hi, Neighbor! Pull out your cardigan sweater and be neighborly tomorrow, because March 20 is “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Day. The creation of Family Communications Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA (www.fci.org/neighbor), this annual event celebrates the late Fred Rogers (known...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Mar 10, 2010 | Blogging, Social Media, Writing
I recently attended a workshop on using social media, and noticed a theme that ran through attendees’ comments: Provided we can find or make the time to blog, tweet, post status updates, and comment on other people’s blogs, how on earth do we generate enough content...
