Nancy Peske

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Be True to Your Vision As an Author

As a writer, you have to accept that to be true to your vision may mean saying no to a ...

LESSONS FOR ASPIRING SELF-HELP BOOK AUTHORS: WHAT NOT TO DO TO YOUR BRAND!

As part of my research for a book proposal I’m working on, I’ve been looking at a bestselling self-help book ...
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SELLING BOOKS IN UNUSUAL PLACES

The New York Times ran an article on selling books in unusual places — unusual for book publishers, that is. For most ...
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HIRE A GHOSTWRITER TO WRITE YOUR BOOK

You’ve dreamed about writing a book someday. You believe you have a story inside you that will amaze and inspire ...
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ON REJECTION LETTERS

Rejection letters can be demoralizing, but they don't have to be. Recently, I had just read and responded to an ...
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ITS VS. IT’S, MISPLACED MODIFIERS, AND MORE

Here’s a cute article on some of the more common grammar glitches that plague authors. I see these come up a ...
Nancy Peske Cut and Paste

HOW TO CUT AND PASTE TO ORGANIZE A ROUGH CHAPTER

https://youtu.be/DXlvL37gpOE I do this type of rough cut-and-paste, old-school editing when I ghostwrite or whenever I work on a chapter ...

DO YOU HAVE HEADERS IN YOUR NONFICTION MANUSCRIPT?

If you’re writing a nonfiction book other than a memoir, you’ll need to break up your text with headers. Good ...
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HOW TO FIND A LITERARY AGENT

People often ask me how to find a literary agent. Because literary agents work entirely on spec (meaning they don’t ...
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COLOR CODING AND SCISSORS AND TAPE: BEST EDITING TOOLS!

When ghostwriting a book based on a manuscript that has scattered bits and pieces of ideas and notes from conversations ...