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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I’m concerned that the current unrest in Haiti will discourage people from donating to earthquake relief funds. Yes, there are problems, but pulling back and doing nothing is not the solution. It’s easy to forget the God factor – that He is in charge. Our place is to trust and to help however we can. …
Our book winners for January, 2010, are Karyn Kiefer and Roberta Johnson! Karyn’s was the first name drawn, so she will have her choice of our two books, and the other book will go to Roberta. Karyn and Roberta, please email me at sue@sueharrison.com. Congratulations!
Here are the two book blurbs I promised you. Hope you have entered a post about any book you gave to others in December. If so, yours will be among the names in our drawing on Thursday for one of these two books. Good luck! BETWEEN SUNDAYS by Karen Kingsbury A jacket blurb: “Megan Gunn…
(FYI: These books have already been given away. If you would like to enter the monthly drawing for a free book(s), please read the most recent Free Books! Post.) I don’t know about you, but I LOVE getting books. I have a whole corner of my office stacked with Books-I-Can’t-Wait-To-Read, which are, of course, the…
When I was in my late twenties, mom of two toddlers, I was an easy mark. If anyone asked me to serve on a committee or volunteer for a job in our church or our community, I ALWAYS said yes. A wise friend took me aside one day and said, “You know, Sue, if you…
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