For writers, the business beyond the art. #writing

After the blood, toil, tears and sweat of bringing your art to its final form, how do you get it onto people’s bookshelves?

Nicholas Bate offers 7 ways to increase the chances of being published:

    7. Show that you understand that you will own 95% of the selling and marketing of your book post publication. Because you will.

And, Steven Pressfield offers advice on booking your own tour:

    “The cardinal rule for a book tour is do not go somewhere you do not have at least twenty personal contacts whom you can invite to your event.”