Business: Sell-Thru

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 At my writing group meeting, an author mentioned a sell-through on her book. It sounded important, but I’ve never heard the term. What is a sell-through? The short answer: sell-through is the percentage ratio of the number of units...

Business: Should a Writer Target the Market

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 As of 10.30.07 What follows is a question and my response from the Aids4Writers Program. I’m including this exchange in the Writers’ Aids Library because it is a question frequently asked. The Question: I’ve been told from the start of my...

Business: Subsidy, Vanity, Self-Publishing

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Q. Could you please go over the difference between a subsidy/vanity publisher and self-publishing? I have heard that the first is sleazy, and the second is commendable, but don’t they both involve the author paying her own money to get...

Business: State of the Market–Romantic Suspense

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 As of 10.30.07 Romantic Suspense has been a hot, marketable commodity. According to many of the publishers surveyed, the heat is holding–at least, for the foreseeable future. Reader Irritants: In a recent RT Book Club survey of 1600...

Craft: Telescoping Characters

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 I was studying a book on craft and ran into an unfamiliar term: “Telescoping characters.” The context didn’t hint at what it meant, and I haven’t seen it in other books on craft. Do you know what the author was talking...
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