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Understanding Your Social Media Campaign
By Tom WoodI attended the Faith in Film Conference in mid-June—one of several seminars held during the weeklong Film-Com event in Nashville—and two of the panel discussions merit discussion here, even though this column is about self-publishing your book.The first one was titled “Understanding Your Social Media Campaign”, the second “The Changing Landscape of Distribution”—a […]
Clay Stafford Interviews Éric Faye, Author of Nagasaki
Éric Faye Credit: Julien Flasimagneby Clay Stafford, Founder Killer Nashville, Publisher Killer Nashville MagazineWhen I began reading Nagasaki by French author Éric Faye, I was taken by its sparseness. I don’t write that as a negative, but in the same manner in which I might compliment Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea. At […]
How A Love of Language Led Emily Boyce to Translate Nagasaki
Emily Boyceby Clay Stafford, Founder Killer Nashville, Publisher Killer Nashville MagazineI kid around that I do well to speak one language (English) and I don’t do that very well. But it always fascinates me when someone can not only speak another language, but also translate it into beautiful prose as Emily Boyce did with […]
How Hard Do You Try to Sell?
By Tom WoodAt a recent book-signing event, a little boy followed his parents into the bookstore. He was maybe six or seven years old and walked straight to my table and picked up a copy of Vendetta Stone while the grown-ups veered somewhere to the right.The silent lad continued to stare at the cover, and […]
Janet Evanovich: From Cheez Doodles To Book Empire
Janet Evanovich, Credit: Roland Scarpaby Clay Stafford,Founder Killer Nashville,Publisher Killer Nashville MagazineJanet Evanovich has written or co-written a total of 54 books to date, and she’s still going strong. That Evanovich has captured the hearts of readers all over the world with her multiple series is an understatement. She is a New York Times […]
Being Your Own Boss Means Meeting Deadlines
By Tom WoodDeadlines, deadlines, and more deadlines.If you are a journalist thinking about self-publishing your Great American Novel, you know the word too well. But as Bachman-Turner Overdrive sang, you ain’t seen nothing yet.Or you’ve already self-published, so you probably know how the deadlines never cease even after the book comes out. Welcome to my […]
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