by Cindy Ervin Huff | May 18, 2015 | Conference Tips
Preparing and doing a pitch is probably my least favorite thing to do. I find it hard to memorize and say it smoothly. There. I’ve admitted it to everyone. I love being a character on stage. I’m pretty comfortable with public speaking, I am the one nominated on...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | May 11, 2015 | Conference Tips
“Go! Learn things.” Leroy Jethro Gibbs, NCIS Research before you attend a conference is a huge key to success. Go to the conference website click on each faculty member, agent, editor and publisher attending. Read, read, and read. Click on links directing you to their...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | May 10, 2015 | Conference Tips
You’ve made your business card and you may or may not have opted for a sell sheet. Another option is a synopsis of your book. A more complete presentation of your project is a proposal. It is a sell sheet on steroids containing pages and pages of information. Let me...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Clips and samples show the writing world what you can do. Appointments with publishers go smoother when you can show rather than tell what you write. Let me define the two. Clips These are articles, poems, stories, devotionals, editorials, whatever you’ve had...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | May 4, 2015 | Conference Tips
When I attended my first conference, I didn’t have one of these. I had nothing to really pitch. No one told me about them, and I never saw one before that first conference. If you have a book to pitch, a one sheet helps showcase it and draw the attention of editors...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 29, 2015 | Writng Tips
My yearly conference is coming up in a few weeks so I thought I’d share what you need to bring to make your conference experience the best it can be. If you’ve never attended one before I hope these tips will erase the deer-in-the-headlights feeling for you....
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Every writer at some point in his career needs an accountability partner and a mentor. Both help grow your career and make you a better writer. Some people get the two terms confused. Let me start by defining terms. Accountability partners work together to achieve a...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
The alligator in the photo reminds me that writers should be thick-skinned. Anyone who has succeeded in the writing world has developed thick-skin. Writers have to pull it out of their toolbox and put it on. Wearing it, nothing and no one can get in our way and bring...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 8, 2015 | Writng Tips
I heard a line of dialogue in Hawaii Five O this past Friday (One of my favs.) that made me sit up and take notice. “I know it like I know the name on my driver’s license.” Why, you ask, was it so significant? It was creative. No cliché here. You know the cliché I’m...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Spring is a time of new beginnings. Although in the Chicagoland areas we are still waiting for it to hit us full force. Seeing the crocuses and daffodil’s green shoots come up gave me hope of warmer days ahead. New beginnings in my writing life are a lot like spring....
