Wildbound Weekly Breeze 4/05/18
BOOK INDUSTRY NEWSHow to Get Your Book Published After 174 Rejection Slips...Author David Bristow recently launched his non-fiction novel, Running Wild. His road to publication is an inspiring story of perseverance.How To Track Down the Perfect Agent?Author Lauren Karcz has some solid advice for you on the NaNoWriMo Blog.Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would...On Easter Sunday, the writer and podcaster Whit Reynolds challenged her female Twitter followers to “describe yourself like a male author would.” Read the spirited responses in the New Yorker.
USELESS FACT TO IMPRESS YOUR FRIEND(S)A four-eyed lizard walked the earth 49 million years ago. For the geeks, read more on Science Magazine.
BOOK PROMOTION TIPEver heard of Quora? It's where you go to get answers to your questions, but also share your hard-earned knowledge. It's a huge platform, so if you create a discussion related to the themes or even title of your book and use relevant keywords in your post title and content, your discussion will show up high on search engines when people google those keywords and send them straight to your book. Bam!
WEEKLY $10 GIVEAWAYThis Week's Writing Challenge is to write The Unrequited Love Poem: How do you feel when you love someone who does not love you back?Email your piece (up to 500 words) to info@wildboundpr.com. The winner will be announced in next week's Weekly Breeze!Congrats to last week's winner, Irmaline Bowker, for her April writing goals:Write 500 words a day, or just write one damn good sentence, and don't invite the editor until you're done.Irmaline, we'll be in touch soon with your prize moolah.
Write on.WILDBOUND PR