As part of preparing to submit my book to publishers, I’m tidying up my online presence. Because while selling a book is about the quality of the writing, the story you tell, the proposal you put together, coordinating with your literary agent and a slew of other moving parts, it’s also about having a wicked […]
Whenever I don’t know how to do something, I ask Google. Usually I ask little things. Like how to add a signature with live links to my Gmail. Or whether it’s possible to give my YouTube channel a cool background. Or what a baobab tree looks like (to help me describe it in my book). […]
You know the drill… Links from this week! Literary agent Chip MacGregor on memoir, including how to move the real-life story onto the page. “Don’t assume because something happened to you, it’s of interest to others,” he writes. Some tips Jane Friedman of Writer’s Digest picked up at a writer’s conference. Random but great. The […]
Everyone’s always talking about personal branding. And a large part of creating your own brand, or self-packaging, involves the Web. I started blogging in June 2008 when I left my job at the Houston Chronicle to travel in Africa. When I returned to the States and began writing a book, and I decided having a […]