2 Writing Books That’ll Blow Your Mind + 2 Marketing Magicians
The best writers are also readers. Thus, what a double DELIGHT it is when you find a writing book that's so good you can't put it down. My new fave is WIRED FOR STORY by Lisa Cron. In it, she uses the latest brain science to reveal how to "hook" readers from the very...
My Top 3 Writing Shortcuts–get ready to change everything!
Too busy to get your book down? Thinking you’ve got to get organized first? Don’t kid yourself. Chances are the piles of crap in your office and those unfinished to-do lists will still be there by year’s end… in 2026!
The Comparison Cure (hint: every writer needs to hear this!)
I just got through talking a client off the ledge. Let’s call her Jan. Researching comparable books for her proposal, she’d been reading the work of a current bestselling author…
Platforms suck… until they don’t (aka: shit takes time).
In case you need help building your platform, I’m about to share my rock-star resources & the team that’s helped me build a platform…
Eat, Pray, Love-erize Your Book!
I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes a book a runaway international bestseller. I get asked about this all the time. "What does it take?" "How do people do it?" "What’s the secret formula?" While those of us who write do so with the hope, intent, and burning...
Golf, & Other Painful Ways to Avoid Writing…
I delivered a book today. The whole shebang. Been working on the final edits for a publisher around the clock for days, and I’m pooped. But smiling. It’s a GREAT feeling to cross the finish line on something this all consuming. Each time it happens, I’m still humbled...
So Not Alone…
It’s 2 am and my squinty eyes can hardy see the road ahead. “It’s Memorial Day weekend. Traveling without reservations will be tricky,” Larry warned this morning. This happens a lot. He offers up a sane tidbit. I listen. And then think he’s being too conservative....
A Literary Agent at My House?
Several months ago I picked up the phone in my office in Los Angeles to speak with a top literary agent in New York to pitch one of my clients. His proposal wouldn’t be finished for several months, due to several legal issues surrounding the material, and the overall...
Fits & Starts Creativity…
I feel so lame; why can’t I finish my book? What gives? I get on a roll, and then totally lose my momentum! Is there something I can do because I’m STUCK?! Ah, welcome to planet earth, location No-Man’s Land—a gray landscape of wandering, glassy-eyed zombie writer...
The Writing Life, Part III: What To Do Once It’s Written
"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life." ~Lawrence Kasdan Ouch. My buddy Joe Parente has an even scarier take: “Lin, watching your schedule is like witnessing a grad student turn in her PhD thesis every Friday!” To some, these...
The Writing Life, Part II: The Daily Grind
He writes and releases three monster-big books per year. He blogs and tweets daily, pens articles like a rocket traveling at warp speed, and speaks to millions. He writes on laptops, in longhand, and through a tape recorder. He’s written several manuscripts on...
The Writing Life, Part I: Script Your Future
A beautiful man I’ve been dating recently asked me what I want for my future—and what it would look like. As I ran through bits of my list (i.e. to edit books like Jackie O until the day I die, and to get married to my best friend and have a life FULL of fun, ease,...
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