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People Round-Up, Mid October 2023

Publishing Trends

Matthew Kissner , took over as interim CEO; he was previously group executive and board chair, and acted as interim CEO from May to December in 2017. Kristen Klemens has joined as client manager for Simon & Schuster Publishing Services , She was formerly partner manager for trade sales and marketing at Rebel Girls.

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How to Turn an Essay into a Book Deal

Jane Friedman

And a great way to do this is by publishing a nutshell version of your big, central idea in essay form. How it worked for me In the summer of 2017, after months of pitching with no luck, I finally found a home for the essay I was dying to write. Restarted my creative drive. Begin with your top choices and work down from there.

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The One Thing Killing Your Most Creative Content Ideas (and How to Stop It)

Content Marketing Institute

Creativity. We’ve gone from pitching wildly creative ideas every day to floating mildly interesting ideas once every six months. It’s just that we’ve been beaten into believing that we’re not creative because we’ve heard “NO!” Hearing “no” too many times beats down our creativity, says @carlajohnson. We all want it.

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Substack Is Both Great and Terrible for Authors

Jane Friedman

Substack launched in 2017 and in its early days, I saw it as a fantastic, easy-to-use platform for starting a paid newsletter. I feel confident that my free newsletter will not stop publishing until I retire from writing and publishing. Children’s author Meg Medina has a newsletter like this, as do many published authors.

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Are You Sure You Don’t Have an Author Platform?

Jane Friedman

In spring 2017, after learning that an aspiring nonfiction author would need a book proposal to find a publisher, I enrolled in a two-Saturday proposal writing class at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Today’s post is by author and educator Lena Nelson , author of America’s Youngest Ambassador.

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Award-winning Author: Pilgrimage won the 2024 Selfie Awards for Best Non-Fiction/Memoir at London Book Fair

The Creative Penn

But awards are also important to many of us, and are hard to come by since so many awards are reserved for traditionally published authors. Pilgrimage is a deeply personal book, and one I was terrified of publishing — but it's resonated with so many people, so I'm thrilled it's also received critical acclaim.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

It will give you a chance to flex your creative writing muscle in a way you don’t normally get to when you are doing work for other people. Shooter Flash: Monthly Shooter Flash spotlights bitesize brilliance with one winning story each month, which we publish online (plus in an annual anthology) and trumpet on social media.

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