http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:25:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here’s a true story to help you understand how to get noticed by hundreds of thousands of people and eventually have the media begging for interviews with you. If you want to be in this position *before* you publish your book, follow the lead of Christopher Greenslate and his partner, Kerri ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/from-tiny-blog-to-book-deal-to-oprah/ [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="You need anecdotes from lots of OTHER people if you want to impress literary agents with with your book."][/caption] The biggest problem I notice with many of the unpublished self-help books I look over is too many examples and stories about the author, and not enough about other ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/7-ways-to-find-people-to-interview-for-your-book/ [caption id="attachment_114" align="alignleft" width="62" caption="If you want a literary agent, mine the humor in your life story, like Carrie Fisher does in "Wishful Drinking.""][/caption] In my interviews with publishing professionals, one thing has come across loud and clear: You can make literary agents and editors take a chance on you if ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/what-adam-sandler-and-sandra-bullock-can-do-for-your-life-story/ [caption id="attachment_109" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Literary Agent Joelle Delbourgo"][/caption] Joelle Delbourgo worked in the executive suites of major publishers before she started Joelle Delbourgo Associates, her own literary agency. Her last in-house job was with HarperCollins. I’m not sure the skills that make you a good editor-in-chief are the same as those that ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/108/ [caption id="attachment_80" align="alignleft" width="80" caption="Vote on Rick Warren's next book cover."][/caption] Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life,  which has sold 30 million copies, has done something unusual for the cover of his next book, The Hope You Need (From the Lord's Prayer). He is holding a design competition at ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/vote-for-your-favorite-cover-for-rick-warrens-new-book/ What do Elvira, The Food Network's Bobby Flay, and comedian Tom Green all have in common? They all started out on public access television. PBS affiliate KTCA even picked up a program called Mental Engineering that started at SPNN, the public access channel of Saint Paul, Minnesota. With more than 700 stations throughout ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/7-tv-shows-authors-are-guaranteed-to-get-on/ I just created a new feature for my e-zine: Author Freebie of the Week. I'm finding some great ebooks, podcasts, teleseminars and videos that people are giving away. These items are extremely useful for authors, so I'm enjoying passing them on. There's always somebody who is suspicious-- in one email I was asked, "You ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/65/ [caption id="attachment_61" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="If you want a literary agent, it can't hurt to get a story in Chicken Soup for the Soul."][/caption] If you want a literary agent, it helps to have some writing credits. One good writing credit to put on your resume is a story in Chicken Soup ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/get-in-chicken-soup-for-the-soul/ I'm working tonight-- though it's Saturday night. The internet never closes.  I took a dinner break at Sitar, the local Indian buffet, and I was carrying my leftovers in a box to bring to the refrigerator at Nextspace, where I work. A young, skinny black-haired girl in  her late teens got ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/marketing-lessons-from-a-santa-cruz-street-urchin/ This is a tale of two pairs of literary agents. Each pair includes a sweet one and a sour one. Sounds like a fairy tale? It kind of is-- with both a happy ending and a moral. The first tale involves  literary agent Carol Susan Roth. I hate to call her the ... http://authorsteam.com/authorsmbablog/sweet-and-sour-literary-agents-and-rumi/