Giving away a book can actually increase sales. And an excellent way to give away and get attention for your soon-to-be-launched book is through Goodreads. A Goodreads giveaway generates excitement about an upcoming book launch. Prior to launch, the typical…
Artist turned Novelist writes WiDo’s™ Newest Acquisition
SALT LAKE CITY, UT April 19, 2013 When submissions editor Allie Maldonado read the query letter from writer Dean Poppe, she figured it would be a fast and simple rejection: “I am 65 years old and this is my first…
WiDo Publishing™ Signs David Kalish for Debut Novel
SALT LAKE CITY, UT April 15, 2013 WiDo Publishing™ is pleased to announce the acquisition of a darkly humorous novel by David Kalish, a former editor and reporter for The Associated Press. According to WiDo’s Allie Maldonado, “I was blown…
“What Makes a Submissions Editor say Yes” / Allie Maldonado
Although WiDo will accept unsolicited, unagented manuscripts, your submission must first get beyond the query letter. Submissions editors are looking for just one thing: a manuscript that says “YES!” Yes! I want to read this one. Yes! our editing and…
WiDo Publishing™ Acquires Debut Novel by Award-winning Author Angela Jackson-Brown
SALT LAKE CITY, UT April 1, 2013 1978. The year I turned ten and the year my mama killed herself. She was thirty-five, and dying is the last thing that should have been on her mind. These are the words…
“I felt like I had found home.” WiDo™ Signs Self-Published Author of Four Books
SALT LAKE CITY, UT March 12, 2013 Becky Lyn Rickman’s latest novel was born at a dollar store in a small Midwestern town. She was standing at the end of a long line, impatient to get home. There was only…
“Self-Publishing is Not for Everyone” / Paul Anthony Shortt
The topic of self-publishing has come up time and again. I sometimes wonder if the debate will ever end as to which one is “better.” The thing is, neither is better than the other. Any more than mayonnaise is better…
WiDo Publishing™ Acquires Literary Work by Composer John von Daler of Denmark
SALT LAKE CITY, UT February 26, 2013 Every so often a work that is so fresh and original that it hardly fits in a genre arrives in an editor’s inbox. An agent or a large publisher may not be able…
“The Art of Ending a Sequel”/ Amie McCracken
The ending to your story is just that, an ending – the finale, finish, fin, finis, kaput, over with, done, gone, ended. There is a finesse to ending a story correctly which includes things like tying up plot lines and…
WiDo™ to Publish Whitney Boyd’s Third Novel
SALT LAKE CITY, UT February 8, 2013 Whitney Boyd’s manuscript landed in the submissions editor’s inbox right about the time her new release Iced Romance was climbing the charts post-Christmas and hitting the Amazon bestseller lists. “I was really excited…