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This series of articles on the blog "Read It and Weep:"


"Create a Market Survey for Your Fiction Manuscript"
"What You Should Know About the Amazon Sales Rank"
"Using the Amazon Sales Rank"
"Calculateing Book Sales From amazon's Sales Rank,"

you might find interesting and useful. They address the issue of
inculding a "Comparative Book Survey" and a "Market Survey" with your
fiction submissions and how to prepare these sur… Continue

OK, here’s the problem. You are an unpublished author, and an editor has requested a complete manuscript of your novel. They read the manuscript, and they “just love it,” BUT they’re not sure of the market for the book. There is something a little quirky in the book that the editor likes because of its originality, but will it sell? So they take a pass rather than assume the risk on your work.

Why not head this problem off by including two additional items with the manuscript: a "Competition Su… Continue

I would entreat you to log onto the Blog post, " A Bar of Soap ," and if you have any knowledge of this amazing bar of soap, to contact me as quickly as possible.

Thank you

Bill

I boxed up my ego, my pride of accomplishment, my certainty that I am a good writer, my belief that anyone who feels otherwise simply is out of touch with reality, and submitted my first chapter of Vamonos!, my second novel, to Ray Rhamey’s blog “Flogging the Quill” – “Turn the Page” critique.

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I recently posted a Blog asking authors of erotica to post a comment stating why their book should be the first erotic novel for me to read since Fanny Hill and The Story of O in college. The process was an eye opener.

Read why and who won at www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/billstephens