Publishing – Geoff Palmer

How to Beat “Synopsis Horror” and Quickly Summarise Your Book

How do you summarise your book in a couple of sentences? Impossible, right? You’ve written sixty-, seventy-, eighty-thousand words or[…]

Despite her public persona, Dolly Parton is a savvy business-person, which probably explains a music career that’s now well into its sixth decade.

A few days ago, I received an enthusiastic email from a publisher I’d never heard of before. The phrasing is[…]

There’s an interesting interview with multi-award-winning local author (and current New Zealand Society of Authors’ president) Mandy Hager over on[…]

Back in 2010, a survey of book buying behaviour in the US returned the following figures: Author reputation 52% Personal[…]

If you use, or are considering using, Patreon, you might like to take a look at their Terms of Use first. Particularly this clause:

Things didn’t go too well for Canadian author Robert L Barclay after his manuscript was accepted by “a commercial publisher[…]

Even the esteemed New York Times doesn’t always get it right, as these blasts from the past show … “Shall[…]

Dean Wesley Smith knows a thing or two about writing. He’s a prolific, with almost two hundred novels and hundreds[…]

No matter how talented you are, no matter how hard working, no matter how awesome and committed your publisher might[…]