Good Things are Happening
March/April Newsletter, 2008
Despite all that appears to be crumbling around us, there still must be something very good happening, at least from my perspective
Never before during my twenty-five years of working with aspiring writers, have I had so many students break through and so quickly. More than at any other time before, I am seeing more positive replies to query letters coming in, more manuscripts being completed quicker and more contracts with top literary agents being landed. More and more books are getting published faster and faster as well, with print on demand publishing playing a big role.
Thank God for whatever changes are transpiring in this regard.
Me? I am completing a long awaited novel; my next book is due for release this fall; my computer programmer is in from California and we’re putting together the re-release of my Author’s Den Interactive Program, which I initially came out with in the mid-90’s, and it will be a real screamer – attractive, efficient, enlightening – everything the new author needs all in one need little package and only a click away.
If you would like to sign up to be a beta version tester of the program, let me know as soon as possible, since we will only be taking on a few. The beta version should be completed and ready to go by mid-May, with the final version ready for release in June.
I will keep you posted.
I don’t know if you have checked it out lately or not, but we made some eye opening enhancements to my Selective Guide to Literary Agents and Editors database, with a video introduction to it due out soon on my website.
Personally, I am doing great as well, and I hope you are too.
Until next month…Tom
Chandler-Gilbert and Knoxville
I will be appearing at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and The University of Tennessee this month. For details click on the following link. Your recommendations to others to attend my classes are always welcome.
A Few Spaces Remain
My upcoming Book Promotion Retreat with noted book publicist Joanne McCall is almost sold out. If you would be interested in filling one of the five remaining spots at the maximum discount available to you, please contact me soon at either TomBird@TomBird.com or by calling 928-203-0265. For more information, click on the following link.
Taking on Three
I will be accepting three new students into my new Individual Intensive Writer’s Course I this month. If you would like to be considered for one of the openings, please contact me to schedule an interview. I can be reached either via TomBird@TomBird.com or by calling 928-203-2065. For more information on the program, click on the following link.
Update on Retreat with New York’s Top Editor
Ten spaces remain for my retreat with Paul D. McCarthy in June. As you may remember, Paul, who has been the personal editor for nine #1 New York Times Authors – including Clive Cussler and Stephen Coonts, has been long acknowledged as the top editor in book publishing. For a more thorough description of what the retreat will entail, click on the following link, and if interested please contact me asap to reserve a spot.
