Free Book Winner!

Congratulations to Milly Balzarini! You won our February free book, JEFF HERMAN’S GUIDE TO BOOK PUBLISHERS, EDITORS and LITERARY AGENTS 2010.  Milly, please email me at sue@sueharrison.com. Thank you! Next week I will post a blurb about our free books for March (2 bestselling novels).  See if you qualify for the drawing! Blessings!  Sue

Pickford Reading Group

When I was a child, my favorite story book was about a little boy and his sister who discovered a key that opened a door into a magical world. I remember thinking how incredible it would be to discover a key like that. A few years later I realized that that key was any book I chose…

Marketing Fiction

Jody Hedlund, a novelist whose first historical romance was just picked up by Bethany House for a Fall 2010 release, posts a couple of great articles about marketing fiction. Check them out at http://short.to/16u09. Blessings, Sue

Interview

Last Saturday, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Ray Case, the editor of “Encompass Magazine.” The magazine is regional to the southwestern area of Michigan, but Ray and the staff have wonderful plans for expansion, and I’m very excited that they chose to interview me for one of their articles. I will let you…

Inspiration

Your Question – Justin Knabe asks: Do you write what you are passionate about or what is selling?  I have a lot of great ideas, but that is as far as it goes. Sue’s reply:   I am currently trying to jump-start my career after a hiatus due to family caregiving needs and also after the bottom…

Marketing

Your Question: Milly Balzarini asks,”The Lost Road Home” became a book because my husband suffers from PTSD due to combat in Vietnam. Writing the book was easy compared to selling it. I am not a salesman and I need some help marketing this book . Any suggestions would be helpful to me. Thank you! Sue’s…

Editing

Your question: Lynn Emerick asks – Is editing – reshaping a book – the job of an agent or an editor at a publishing company? Answer from Sue: Reshaping a manuscript is ultimately the author’s job, but, in the case of a manuscript being readied for publication, both agents and editors are highly involved. I have…

February FREE BOOK!

I remember when my dream was to become a PUBLISHED AUTHOR, with READERS and even maybe, perhaps, possibly earning money for what I wrote. I am fortunate. That dream came true for me, but not until I had learned as much as I could about how the book business worked. What agents do; what publishers…

Getting Published

The snow is blowing in hard across the bay. It cuts the face, burns the eyes, numbs the toes, but I absolutely love January, February and March.  Am I nuts? Nope. Winter is the time I hide away and write. Instead of only an early morning stint at the computer, I have long lovely days to spend with…

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