The
best way to do that is to run stark naked with your creativity. Don’t be afraid
to bare those virgin thoughts, no matter how your conscious mind chastises the
behavior.
These are just some of the hilarious lines in the
book, written by Robyn Conley, Be Your
Own Book Doctor.
Robyn Conley, the book doctor and speaker, writes
about writing, editing, and marketing what you write. She can show you how to
find the problems in your work which keep it from selling to publishers or
snatching an agent’s interest.
She writes in a fun and easy to understand way which
really helps writers create stories, edit like a professional, and helps sell a
book. In the first part of the book, she writes about giving your book a
professional diagnosis. By that, she means find problems in your plot. After
you find problems from your plot, she gives suggestions on how to fix them.
She gives tips on how to make your book even
stronger whether it is fiction or non-fiction. She gives tips on strengthening
dialogue, characters, and plot. Telling of her personal experiences, she helps
you learn the easy way to making a better book.
Now being done writing and editing, it’s time to
sell the book. She calls the last part of her book cosmetic nips and tucks,
talking about query letters, synopsis, marketing, and network, network,
network. Then after you have cured the book it is time to get a second
opinion. Like hiring people to read your
work or getting a critic group to do that for free. By the end of this how-to-book,
your book will become a gem all will want to read.
Be
Your Own Book Doctor is her tenth book. Others include John Grisham, Cartoonists, Alexander G.
Bell, Meerkats, Depression, Motion Pictures, The Automobile, Living the
Rapture, and What Really Matters to
Me – a journal which helps people discover their goals, and then offers
practical tips to make those dreams come true.
Bethany Calloway – high school book reviewer-extraordinaire
