The back cover of your book

The back cover of your book

Think of your book description as the most important sales pitch of your life. Every word must count, every idea must serve to rope readers in. Too often, indie authors fall short and lose readers to a book with better promo copy.Every book needs a book description –...
PLOTS, The Turning Points

PLOTS, The Turning Points

Plot plus characters are the two fundamentals of fiction. Of course, you have to write good dialogue and graphic descriptions of the story’s setting, but without a plot neither the writer or the reader knows where the story is going. There are a number of books on...
Where to Start Your Book

Where to Start Your Book

Consultant Nancy Erickson offers a guide to getting started on the book you’ve always wanted to write but don’t know where to begin.Think about how you would start any multi-layered project – like building a house. You’d start with a plan, wouldn’t you? Your book...
Workforce Planning in the 21st Century

Workforce Planning in the 21st Century

Until the 1980s workforce planning was a common activity. But with the layoffs starting in 1989 planning disappeared for nearly a decade. Just as it would have restarted the dotcom mania struck. It wasn’t until about 2005 that management realized how important...
Getting Published

Getting Published

By Mike Larson of Larsen Pomada If you’ve thought about writing a book and getting it published you may have wondered how difficult it would be. The bad news is it is quite difficult. Some of the great books of the past twenty years were rejected numerous times before...