How to Pitch Your Book Idea
In this teaching, Suzie shares how to offer concise, compelling information in a pitch. She describes how to ask and answer questions, as well as offers three things to help rather than hurt your pitch.
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Using the Writer’s Market Guide
In this training, Suzie Eller shows you how to study the book section of your market guide. She breaks down the information so that you can not only understand it but use it to your advantage.
How to Create a One Sheet that Sells Your Book Idea
In this lesson, Tracie explains more about the value and use of one sheets, shares five steps on how to prepare yourself to begin writing and designing your one sheet and outlines the nine elements of content that...
How to Develop a Solid Book Proposal
In this lesson, Tracie Miles teaches how to write a solid book proposal that will provide everything a publisher needs to know in such a way that gets them excited and intrigued about your book idea.
Is this crucial element missing from your book proposal?
A solid book proposal will contain a “Comparative Analysis” section. We can be tempted to skip over this section or treat it lightly. In today’s Tuesday Tip we share the 4 questions and answer to determine why a...
Inspiration for When Your Dream is Too Big for You
This week, we have a special guest post from COMPEL Member, COMPEL Volunteer Community Group Leader and author Betsy de Cruz about what it means to follow your God-given dreams, even if it seems too big. Betsy de...
Building Your Writing Library with Classics
Every craftsman has his or her tools. The obvious tools are a computer, Internet, and a place to write, but another tool is a writing library. In today’s Tuesday Tip we share a few classic books that might be...
Becoming a Better Writer by Becoming a Better Editor
Today, we are celebrating the launch of our newest COMPEL Live Course: Becoming a Better Writer by Becoming a Better Editor. This course will equip you with simple tips and techniques to elevate your own writing through...
Become a Better Writer by Becoming a Better Self-Editor
You've arrived at our newest course! Each week a new lesson will be unlocked, every Thursday, from April 4th to April 25th.
Editing is to writing what alterations are to the fashion world. It’s not the most...Those Pesky Number Rules
Have you ever been confused about how to write numbers in a sentence or paragraph? To be honest with you, this has confused me at times. We all have strong and weaker points. This is my weaker point,...