My web design firm, Waxcreative Design, knows how to get authors noticed.
In addition to great aesthetics, they are expert at branding, marketing, and promotion. They are also good people. I am honored this Holiday Season to be featured on their New Year’s card.
About 100 school sessions ago, there I am challenging students and making them laugh while they learn about character, plot, and why, when red-penciled teacher comments include a request to “correct and revise…and turn this back in tomorrow,” the correct response is not, “No! Please don’t make me. Why do you hate me?”
I tell them that pilots have to take flying lessons before they solo.
I tell them quarterbacks have to practice passing.
I tell them carpenters need to apprentice before they build a house.
I tell them no first draft is ever perfect. Writers must re-write.
I tell them that I wrote eight drafts of Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything.
The room goes silent.
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[full disclosure: Waxcreative's proprietrix is my eldest child, Emily Cotler.]
{fuller disclosure: I rewrote this blog post thrice.}
