Booklife : strategies & survival tips for the 21st century writer / Jeff VanderMeer ; with contributions from Matt Staggs ... [et al.].

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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Are You Ready to Embrace A Booklife?; How to Use This Book; Sampling It; Following the Structurea; Re-Imagining the Book; What This Book Is Not; Further Resources: Booklifenow.com and Booklife.com; I. Public Booklife; Chapter 1: Building Your Booklife; The Pillars of Your Public Booklife; Creating and Managing Goals; Mapping Your Future: Think Strategically Not Tactically; Approaches to Planning; Change Management; Mission Statements; Benefits; "How Am I Possibly Going to Keep Upwithall of This?!"; The Discovery Process

Being Yourself Exploring Your Strengths and Weaknesses; Improving Your Abilities; Choosing Your Platforms; Facebook; MySpace; Twitter; YouTube; Other Platforms; Public Platform Example: The Blog; Creating A Blog; Temperament: Should You Release Your Inner Evil Monkey?; The Tension Between Ego and Information; Modeling and Content Development; Effective Approaches; Ineffective Approaches; Enhancements; Managing Your Involvement; Levels of Involvement; Follow Through = Personal Integrity; A Personal Space the Size of a Postage Stamp?

Chapter 2: Communicating Your BooklifeNetworking; How Do You Network?; Rules for Communication; Overcoming Fear of Contact; Managing Contacts; Dealing with Editors and Publicists; A Covenant of Mutual Respect; When Things Go Wrong; Making Assumptions, and What You Can Do About It; Understanding Creative PR; Universal Elements; The Lifecycle of a Book; Rules of Engagement; PR Opportunities; Blurbs; Conferences and Conventions; Readings; Guest Blogging; Interviews; Reviews; Writing Your Backstory; PR Tools; Artifacts; Information Retrieval; Objects

SamplesLeveraging Your Ideas; Lost in the Crowd?; Successful Example: "The Situation"; Creating a PR Plan; Your High-Level Plan; Your Detailed Plan; Five Minimum Elements For Success; Chapter 3: Maintaining Your Booklife; Transparency; Branding; Personal; Public; Managing Perception; The Importance of Persistence; Paying It Forward/Community; Against Trends; Positive Survival Strategies; Multi-Purposing The Public for the Private; Using Personification; Booklife Gut-Check: Toward Peace of Mind; The Search for Balance; Your Health; Positive Choices

Avoiding the NegativeMultitasking and Fragmentation; White Noise and Dark; Managing Open Channels; Tolerance For Channels; II. Private Booklife; Chapter 1: Living Your Booklife; The Pillars Of Your Private Booklife; Reasons to Write; Attitude and Creativity; Finding Inspiration; Acknowledging The Passion; Strategies; Being Receptive; The Subjectivity Of Taste; Mastery As Uncertainty; The Tactics Of Prose; Room to Think; Recognizing The Nature Of Distraction; The Other You; Relinquishing All Fetishes; Writing and Revision; Testing Your Work

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Helps writers traverse the often difficult journey from first draft to finished product . Publishers Weekly "" One of the things that sets VanderMeer apart is his embrace of technology and media "" Wired.com The world has changed, and with it the writing life. In addition to crafting a novel or non-fiction work, writers must now consider a slew of ""new media"" promotion opportunities: blogs, social networks, mini-feeds, and podcasts, to name just a few. Booklife will provide you with the strategic and tactical intel to develop your writing career and thrive in this new environment. It explore

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