Marketing The Muse http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/index Marketing The Muse With Marla Miller en ocwriter@cox.net Copyright 2009 2009-10-28T22:18:22-08:00 Marketing The Muse Writers Dispatch http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/marketing-the-muse-writers-dispatch/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/marketing-the-muse-writers-dispatch/ Marla's Musings on MORE.com 2009-07-30T23:45:48-08:00 So You Think You’re Ready To Audition Your Manuscript http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/so-you-think-youre-ready-to-audition-your-manuscript/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/so-you-think-youre-ready-to-audition-your-manuscript/ What if you’re not? Don't be a premature submitter! SERVICES Premature submission may sour the interest of agents and/or editors who would otherwise be a good fit for you and your manuscript.

The Marketing The Muse Manuscript Readiness Evaluation Service is for both fiction & non fiction writers.

Continued at So You Think You’re Ready To Audition Your Manuscript]]> 2009-03-21T03:34:17-08:00 Good Manners Are A Must http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/good-manners-are-a-must/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/good-manners-are-a-must/ AGENTS & EDITORS, Query Letters A few weeks ago, I was sitting on the dais at the Santa Barbara Writers Workshop, (a fabulous FREE daylong workshop hosted by SB City College. A West Coast literary agent sat next to me. A Marketing the Muse workshop writer approached us. Though I knew this writer, the agent in question had just met her in my workshop.

Continued at Good Manners Are A Must]]> 2009-03-20T00:19:06-08:00 Video: Plain Talk About Authors And Agents http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/video-plain-talk-about-authors-and-agents/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/video-plain-talk-about-authors-and-agents/ Featuring Marla Miller at the Southern California Writers Conference ONLINE WORKSHOPS, Videos If you have questions about this video, please get in touch.

]]> 2009-03-18T20:25:28-08:00 Featured Writing Tutorial For March 2009 http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/featured-writing-tutorial-march-2009/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/featured-writing-tutorial-march-2009/ TC Boyle shows writers how to give an interview. ARTICLES, Tutorials Watch and learn during this mini-interview with Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the NYT Book Review where they discuss his new novel The Women.

]]> 2009-03-16T18:14:55-08:00 Industry Growth http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/industry-growth/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/industry-growth/ The Good News... NEWS ROOM, Publishing Industry For Spirituality & Health Writers:

Spirituality & Health Books imprint launched @ 2009 BEA.

Romance writers

Self published/bestselling novel gets reprinted by Scribner.

Elsewhere

Other Industry Growth News...

]]> 2009-03-13T17:51:42-08:00 Industry Woes http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/industry-woes/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/industry-woes/ (Well it can't be all good news.) NEWS ROOM, Publishing Industry Revenue at HarperCollins dropped 25% in the key quarter ended December 31

Dying Breed? Do newspapers matter?

Freelance writer pool becomes even more competitive

]]> 2009-03-13T17:35:41-08:00 An Author’s Good Manners Get Noticed http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/an-authors-good-manners-get-noticed/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/an-authors-good-manners-get-noticed/ NEWS ROOM, Honor Roll Longtime Marketing The Muse Workshop attendee, Jennifer Gay Summer’s, has a new book out (co-authored with her dad): Any Way You Can: 50 Years In Show Business, mentions yours truly in the Acknowledgements.

Thank you, Jen! You didn’t have to but it’s sure nice that you did.

]]> 2009-03-12T23:20:22-08:00 TC Boyle’s New Novel Reviewed In The NY Times http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/tc-boyles-new-novel-reviewed-in-the-ny-times/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/tc-boyles-new-novel-reviewed-in-the-ny-times/ We hope to have an interview with this literary master real soon... NEWS ROOM, Publishing Industry The melding of fact and fiction brilliantly demonstrated in TC Boyle's newest novel, The Women reviewed by Joanna Scott. (January 29th, 2009)

]]> 2009-02-06T01:57:37-08:00 A Video About Memoir Writing http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/a-video-about-memoir-writing/ http://www.marketingthemuse.com/ee/marketingmuse/full-entry/a-video-about-memoir-writing/ Marla Miller leads a workshop at The Southern California Writers Conference about writing a memoir. ONLINE WORKSHOPS, Videos Enjoy the video, and don't forget to leave me some feedback in the comments!

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