by Blue Pencil Consulting | Oct 16, 2019 | Book Proposal, Book Publishing, Books, Process, Publishing
If you hope to get your book in front of the acquisition editors at the “Big Five” trade publishing houses (Penguin Random House, Hachette Livre, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, and Simon & Schuster) or the largest educational publishers, then the answer to...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Oct 27, 2015 | Book Publishing, Books, Process, Publishing, Self Publishing
If you think the time has come for you to write and publish a book, but you wonder where to start, you might want to attend this event that’s part of the Concord Festival of Authors. On Wednesday, October 28, 7:30 PM at Kerem Shalom in Concord, MA, join me and fellow...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Nov 30, 2009 | Process, Writing
Whew! Last night I finished writing a 50,000-word draft of a novel as part of National Novel Writing Month (which ends tonight at midnight). See www.nanowrimo.org for more about this challenging event. This is the third year in a row I’ve participated and “won” by...
by Blue Pencil Consulting | Nov 6, 2009 | Editing, Process, Writing
For fun, this month I am participating in National Novel Writing Month (also known as NaNoWriMo), which means I have made a pact with myself and thousands of other NaNoWriMo participants that I will write a 50,000-word first draft of a novel between November 1 and...
