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The Perfect Pitch

By Eric San Juan July 28, 2017Contributed Posts, Writing

In our current world, it seems like independent, hard work is rewarded. If you want to do something yourself, how do you do it? If you're willing to pursue a passion project yourself, you'll find success if you can nail your idea down, plan the project out well and carry it out to specification. However, creation is only one (rather small, in fact) aspect of independent work. No matter if your project is a comic book, a business, a book or a service - you'll need to do a lot of hard work after you've poured your blood, sweat and…

Writing Has A Super Power: It Can Heal You

By Eric San Juan May 19, 2017Contributed Posts, Writing

Image source Writing is a lot of things to a lot of people. It is an escape, it is a purpose, a hobby, a job and a passion, a way of life. It is the single greatest invention in the history of time because it changed the world; it took what people had been forced to remember and made it tangible. Agriculture, recordkeeping, recipes, ideas and inventions; all of these were made possible thanks to the written word. But above all of this, above all of these reasons to write, writing can heal. Stress, worry, anxiety, the black mist and…

How I first got published, part 6 – all that other stuff

By Eric San Juan March 11, 2017Writing

The following is an encore from 2009, presented here in the hopes that the info will be helpful for aspiring authors. I've authored or coauthored five books since, and self-published another four, and most of this still applies. So enjoy. Hope it helps! There is a lot of stuff they don't tell you about getting a book published. You hear about the process of writing, and crafting cover letters, and how to approach agents and publishers, and on and on and on, but what about all the stuff the happens after you secure a deal? No one tells you about that. By…

How I first got published, part 5 – Revising and rewriting

By Eric San Juan March 10, 2017Writing

The following is an encore from 2009, presented here in the hopes that the info will be helpful for aspiring authors. I've authored or coauthored five books since, and self-published another four, and most of this still applies. So enjoy. Hope it helps! (If you're joining me in progress, this is the 5th part in a series devoted to outlining how my co-author and I managed to get our book, A Year of Hitchcock, published.) So here's the part where the joy of getting a contract is smothered in the giant pile of WORK no one tells you about when…

How I first got published, part 4 – The Waiting Game

By Eric San Juan March 9, 2017Writing

The following is an encore from 2009, presented here in the hopes that the info will be helpful for aspiring authors. I've authored or coauthored five books since, and self-published another four, and most of this still applies. So enjoy. Hope it helps! Welcome to part 4 of a series detailing from start to finish how A Year of Hitchcock went from a neat idea to a published book (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Every step of the way, from writing to pitching to all the work we had to do after it was sold. If you're an aspiring writer, hopefully this will help…