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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
M. J. Rose
Life
My Life
New
Back
Metropolitan
Museum
Neighborhood
Ten Years
Across
Adult
Again
First
Grew
Lived
Moved
New York
Ten
Up
Years
York
I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
M. J. Rose
People
Past
Memory
Always
Hypnosis
Meditate
Phrase
Tools
Access
Created
Found
Help
Lives
Might
State
Them
Where
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
M. J. Rose
Memory
Tools
Lost
Now
Ancient
Novels
Revolves
Tool
Twelve
Around
Books
Different
Each
When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
M. J. Rose
You
Coffee
Your
Dream
Brutal
Check
Email
Facebook
Fictive
Heads
Page
Pencils
Procrastinate
Sharpen
Zip
Characters
Get
Make
Out
Over
Read
Stay
Still
Stop
Up
Writers
Writing
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
M. J. Rose
Will
Your
Book
Advertising
Displayed
Hopes
Marketing
Readers
Sells
Find
I just want to sit in my room and write books.
M. J. Rose
Want
Sit
Room
Just
Books
Write
I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
M. J. Rose
Success
Focus
Think
Will
Define
Most Important Thing
Figure
How
I Think
Important
Important Thing
Mean
Most
Out
The Most Important
Thing
Us
Writers
I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
M. J. Rose
Feel
Name
About
Far
Household
Household Name
Novelist
Realistic
Superstar
Career
Certainly
I Feel
Successful
From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
M. J. Rose
Success
Getting
Beginning
Enough
Compromising
Envisioned
Published
Selling
Books
Continue
Could
Keep
Very
Wanted
Without
Write
Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose
Good
You
Go
Karma
Author
Authors
Bookstore
Good Manners
Manners
Plain
Away
Books
Buy
Even
Events
Give
Going
Interested
Just
Other
Read
Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.
M. J. Rose
You
Better
Your
Always
Be Prepared
Interviewer
Okay
Prepared
Air
Book
Coming
Find
Going
Job
Out
Part
Radio
Read
Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
M. J. Rose
You
Goals
Your
Book
Agent
Editor
Expectations
Prepared
Ask
Before
Find
Get
House
Out
Sense
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
M. J. Rose
You
Time
Yourself
See
Check
Grief
Hire
Publicist
Yours
Books
Coming
Other
Out
Same
Same Time
Save
Some
Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.
M. J. Rose
Grace
See
More
Virtual
Available
Bookstores
Covers
Descriptions
Ease
Estimates
Explosion
Plot
Thanks
Titles
Books
Characters
Could
Even
Going
Means
Million
Our
Than
Were
We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
M. J. Rose
Shine
Stand
Book
Something
Book Club
Marketers
Readers
About
Books
Club
Excited
Get
Leaders
Makes
Need
Out
Them
Write
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
M. J. Rose
Attention
Websites
Books
Marketing
Bookstores
Pages
Readers
Sends
Few
Gets
Read
Sell
Them
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
M. J. Rose
Will
Talk
Make
About
Available
Readers
Talked
Titles
Books
Get
Many
Millions
Them
Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
M. J. Rose
Love
Work
People
Social Media
Authors
Buzz
Noise
Sadly
Spread
Successes
About
Creating
Except
Hard
Huge
Lead
Lot
Make
Making
Media
Negative
Our
Own
Share
Social
Something
Want
Word
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.
M. J. Rose
Thinking
Social Media
Will
Burn
Butterflies
Careers
Crash
Standstill
Trap
Come
Easy
Fall
Media
Our
Social
Worse
It's so easy to look foolish online.
M. J. Rose
Look
Easy
Foolish
Online
Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
M. J. Rose
You
Nothing
True
Like
Facebook
Pinterest
Presence
Tweeting
Worth It
Having
Same
Social
Twitter
Worth
Wrong
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose
You
Important
Sometimes
Must
Just
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
M. J. Rose
Mistakes
More
Help
Why
Authors
Avoid
Dozen
Novels
Published
Randy
Susan
Far
Had
Made
Making
Our
Than
Which
Wrote
Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
M. J. Rose
Wind
Your
More
Up
Authors
Budget
Marketing
Trailer
Trailers
Books
Far
Instead
Many
Spend
Than
Too
Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
M. J. Rose
Car
Sports
Your
Wine
Advance
Antique
Bottle
Cellar
Diamonds
Investing
Jefferson
Thomas
Yard
Book
Buy
Instead
Use
Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
M. J. Rose
Time
Psycho
Like
She
Author
Male
Specialty
Specific
Thriller
Thrillers
Vera
Any
Female
Her
Other
Type
Wrote
I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
M. J. Rose
Life
Best
World
Passion
All My Life
Fervor
Gusto
About
City
Grew
Here
I Think
Lived
My Life
New
New York
Think
Up
Write
York
Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
M. J. Rose
Me
Way
Puzzle
More
Cliche
Demands
Inspires
Paris
About
After
Her
Just
Other
Places
She
Try
Without
Write
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose
World
City
New
Challenge
Belonged
Centuries
Paris
Perfume
Placed
Been
Book
Greatest
Has-Been
Knowing
Lost
More
Novel
Since
Than
Three
Would
Would-Be
I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
M. J. Rose
Sad
Long
Sweet
City
Curious
Dreamers
Enticing
Fantasies
Lovers
Melancholy
Musicians
Mysteries
Paris
Seductive
Senses
Smells
Walks
Wine
Always
Artists
I Think
Just
She
Sometimes
Think
Writers
Yes
Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
M. J. Rose
Good
Always
Anything
About
Appeal
Brilliant
Sales
Original
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
M. J. Rose
Success
People
Will
Book
Appealing
Rests
Find
Ultimately
Whether
Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
M. J. Rose
King
Nothing
Writing
Child
Appealing
George
Lee
Martin
Plotting
Readers
Roberts
Stephen King
Styles
Wildly
Books
Characters
Common
Different
Find
Little
Write
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
M. J. Rose
Best
You
Always
Enough
Agents
Appeal
Editors
Identify
Strive
Book
Even
Might
Most
Something
Still
Write
Writers
One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.
M. J. Rose
You
Editing
Book
Design
Author
Cover
Differences
Distribution
Producing
Publicity
Published
Responsible
Between
Biggest
Everything
Just
Well
Writing
There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it.
M. J. Rose
Nothing
Who
Advertising
About
Authors
Cover
Hated
Marketing
Published
Publisher
Title
Could
Decided
Many
As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
M. J. Rose
You
Power
Book
Choice
Author
Embrace
Yours
Create
Truly
I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
M. J. Rose
Mother
Mom
Day
Feel
Absence
Commercialization
Just One
Relentless
Thanks
Always
Deal
Even
Harder
Her
Just
Miss
More
Would
Would-Be
Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
M. J. Rose
Love
I Am
Blessed
Daughter
No Question
Rose
Am
Because
Books
Her
Many
Question
Really
Things
Ways
Wonderful
Writer
If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
M. J. Rose
Mom
You
Your
Lucky
Around
Still
Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
M. J. Rose
You
Day
Your
Who
Board
Bookstore
Chase
Chat
Sandwich
Anyone
Days
Five
Front
Here
Hours
Idea
Least
Spend
Talk
Three
Two
Wearing
Week
While
Willing
There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.
M. J. Rose
Great
Support
Social Media
Media
Agents
Connections
Debate
Editors
Friendships
Networking
Reporters
Reviewers
Tool
Industry
Lead
Others
Our
Social
One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
M. J. Rose
World
People
Right
Right People
Feeds
Notice
Round
Tweet
Heard
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
M. J. Rose
Who
Alive
Industry
Almost
Author
Publishing
Tumultuous
Changes
Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.
M. J. Rose
Work
Together
Smart
Will
Authors
Cheer
Chose
Competitive
Diverse
Faced
Innovative
Promote
Storms
Create
Each
Fiction
Field
Find
Group
Other
Very
Ways
Which
Why
Writer
The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
M. J. Rose
Waiting
Fiction
List
Writer
Celebrated
Newcomers
Promising
Members
In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
M. J. Rose
Online
Get
Order
Deal
Traditional
I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and a group of other Air Force Intelligence officers formalized brainstorming as a problem solving technique. He taught the concept that creativity can be taught at Buffalo University. My dad invented toys. My mom was a photographer.
M. J. Rose
MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
M. J. Rose
Me
Accept
Guild
Member
Author
Refused
It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
M. J. Rose
Service
Website
More
Up
Authors
Decade
Hundreds
Lip
Lip Service
Published
Been
Gone
Many
Novel
Put
Since
Than
Then
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