http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/ A better way to get your book read by publishers -- Trust the Bubblecow! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Gary Smailes Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:48:13 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-757 nooo! nooo!

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Captain Black Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:45:28 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-756 Oops, I seem to have committed error #5. Oops, I seem to have committed error #5.

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Gary Smailes Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:50:36 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-747 Tam - Two great additions. I think knowing your audience is vital. I would not suggest writers write to please their audience but instead have a detailed knowledge of their marketplace and the novels that are selling and not selling. Tam – Two great additions. I think knowing your audience is vital. I would not suggest writers write to please their audience but instead have a detailed knowledge of their marketplace and the novels that are selling and not selling.

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Tam Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:18:38 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-744 Great advice, as always. Could add "Don't know your audience" and "Think you know it all" to these as well :-) Great advice, as always. Could add “Don’t know your audience” and “Think you know it all” to these as well

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Gary Smailes Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:19:01 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-742 thanks - I think that being amazing is essential. I would recommend that everyone reads Seth Godin's Purple Cow. thanks – I think that being amazing is essential. I would recommend that everyone reads Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-741 @benwhiting Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:52:15 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-741 Great concise advice. #1 needs to be talked about more often. Successfully being amazing can make up for deficiencies in the others (except for #5--quitting is flat-out fatal). Great concise advice. #1 needs to be talked about more often. Successfully being amazing can make up for deficiencies in the others (except for #5–quitting is flat-out fatal).

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Gary Smailes Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:28:32 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-736 I picked this gem up from an editor at Franklin Watt... I picked this gem up from an editor at Franklin Watt…

]]> http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/2009/11/5-ways-to-not-get-your-novel-published/comment-page-1/#comment-733 @BenDawe Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:26:16 +0000 http://www.bubblecow.co.uk/?p=1616#comment-733 "Your book needs to clearly fit into a genre but still be differently different enough to give it a unique angle in the marketplace." Says it all. Thanks Ben “Your book needs to clearly fit into a genre but still be differently different enough to give it a unique angle in the marketplace.”
Says it all.
Thanks
Ben

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