Yvonne Perry: Check Your Sell-Your-Book Expertise with Carolyn's Quiz!

Monday, October 29, 2007

Check Your Sell-Your-Book Expertise with Carolyn's Quiz!

Every writer should know the answer to these or know how to find out :

1. What is the rule posted by most agents and publishers I can break in order to sell my book faster?

2. How can a style sheet help me edit my book or work better with my editor?

3. Why do I need to know about indexing?

4. How can I corral Word's Spell Checker to help rather than hinder my editing process?

5. Why is editing important to getting a publisher or an agent when my publisher's editor will help me with that anyway?

6. Why should I rarely send out a cover letter rather than a query letter?

7. Why should I avoid using italics for internal dialogue? How do you avoid using them for internal dialogue?

8. What perfectly natural and grammar-perfect thing should I avoid telling an agent?

9. How can I turn adverbs that slow my narrative into metaphors?

10. How can I purge my copy of passive constructions using a computer?

11. How can code words in my document help avoid humiliation?

12. How do I avoid superfluous quotation marks that annoy agents and editors?

If you don't know the answers to most every one of these 12 questions without peeking you are sure to benefit from the newly released book:

The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success available now on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0978515870/

It's already rocketed to Amazon's Top Ten List in its category!

It should be sitting on your shelf right next to the award-winning* first in the HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers, The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't by UCLA Extension Writers' Program Instructor Carolyn Howard-Johnson

*Winner of USA Book News Best Professional Book 2004

*Winner of Book Publicists of Southern California's Irwin Award

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson said...: What a great quiz, if I do say so myself! (-: Thank you, Yvonne. I hope many will avail themselves of this book. I know I wish I had a copy when I first came back to my writing career. And I know that even after many, many years of editing for newspapers, editing for authors, writing, etc. etc. that I learned lots new writing it. Ha!
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson
www.howtodoitfrugally.com; 10:25 AM

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Books by Yvonne Perry

Light Language Emerging ~ Activating Ascension Codes & Integrating Body, Soul, and Spirit

Light is the language of the creator. When spoken verbally, light language can create, bring a message, blessing, or healing as a response to a request a soul has made. Old thoughts, beliefs, and behavior patterns are housed in the subconscious and our DNA. Our DNA also holds light codes of the original Adam (perfect divine human). When activated, these codes can override and reprogram old beliefs and patterns that keep the body, mind, and emotions sick and in disrepair. Learn how light language can help activate these codes.

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Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience

As the Earth is coming into alignment with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are being affected by strong cosmic energy that is compelling us to change our way of thinking and living. Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience is designed to help people personally manage the symptoms of the current shift in consciousness we are all experiencing as we approach the end of the Piscean Age and enter the Age of Aquarius.

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Walk-ins Among Us ~ Open Your Personal Portal to Cosmic Awareness

If you have had a strange spiritual experience, you will find comfort and information to help make sense of it in this eye-opening book, written by a walk-in to help others understand the soul exchange process and how to integrate higher vibrations that clear energy imprints that are not aligned with love, light, and joy.

Learn how to stay centered and actively involved in your personal ascension process as you discover your mission, purpose, and role on Earth.

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Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You

Are you super sensitive to the negativity around you? Are your coworkers like psychic vampires who leech off your energy? Do you have mysterious illnesses, aches, and pains? Are you depressed or angry for no good reason? Do some friends and family members make you feel drained?
You may be an empath picking up on the thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and even the illnesses of others. Whose Stuff Is This? is a guidebook for empathic people who have been unknowingly carrying energetic burdens that belong to someone else.

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More Than Meets The Eye ~ True Stories About Death, Dying, and Afterlife

More Than Meets the Eye: True Stories about Death, Dying and Afterlife is a book that address topics that many people are not comfortable talking about such as suicide, the near-death experience, end of life decisions, and euthanasia. The book is designed to help people release their fear of death, learn to communicate with those on the other side, and to comfort someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one.

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The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children

Perry has authored twelve children’s stories known as The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children. These stories build self-esteem and empower young ones to follow their inner guidance and overcome fear. Inspired by her grandson, these stories offer valuable messages that support the whole child—body, soul and spirit—and teach environmental responsibility.

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Stockpiled Poetry ~ Introspective Thoughts About Life, God, and Other Stuff That Can’t Be Explained!

Stockpiled Poetry is a bunch of plain style poems LavendarRose threw into the file drawer awaiting someone to appreciate them. If you like them, their day has come.

You will find a hodge-podge of themes and thoughts in this collection. From throwing pottery with the hippies in Missouri to poems about nature, religion, divorce, love, depression, relationships, the unfairness of life and other dark tales about living in the perfect world.

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Email Episodes ~ A Hilariously Honest Look at Life

Yvonne's humorous book, Email Episodes ~ A Hilariously Honest Look at Life, is about a woman experiencing an identity crisis as she faces divorce and approaches mid-life with teenagers who are raising reptiles in the basement.

A great book of short entertaining stories, which also shares some of life's triumphs and troubles shared by all mothers of teenagers. Those going through divorce, leaving organized religion, or learning to live authentically will appreciate the candid humor.

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Oh, Come, Angel Band ~ The Living Genealogy of the Charlton Bates Family

Authors: Jenny Bates Meadows-Sauls and Yvonne Perry

The genealogy of the Bates family of Cherokee County, Georgia is traced back to Charlton Bates and Nancy Kelly (O'Kelly) Bates, who are first mentioned living in South Carolina in 1812. Through DNA testing, we know that our family has a ancestor blood-related to James Shockley Bates.

The descending lineage mentioned in this book are David Ward and Nancy Martin, Thomas F. Bates and Sarah Elizabeth Ward, Savannah Bates and Alexander Newton Smith, and Lemuel Harris Bates and Lillian Margaret Smith.

Many of the children and extended family members of these family heads are mentioned in this book, and more than 200 photos document the journey.

Of broader interest, the book contains some history of the Cherokee and Hall Counties of Georgia as remembered by the Bates family who lived in the area.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Check Your Sell-Your-Book Expertise with Carolyn's Quiz!

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