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If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It

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Walt Disney

Great advice:

If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney

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Book Title Critique: $125

If you are looking to brand your book or want to create a bestseller, a book title critique will help you to create a bestselling book before you hire a cover designer (and spend up to $4,000 on a cover with a bad title).

Each critique includes a 15-minute feedback session via telephone.

Email: JohnKremer@BookMarket.com to set up an appointment.

Book Cover News from Around the Web

Book Cover News and Reviews from Around the Web . . .

Five AVENGERS Comic Book Covers Which Would Make Better Theatrical Posters – Here are five comic book covers I believe would make for better posters had Marvel decided to translate these into live action. – From http://www.comicbookmovie.com.

Photographs by Marcie Jan Bronstein licensed for book covers – Photographs by Marcie Jan Bronstein are licensed for book covers around the world, for novels by William Trevor, Laura Esquival, Regina McBride, Alice Sebold. – From http://www.inthisplayground.com.

Music City Dirt: Country Music Romance Book Cover – I came up with a couple dozen concepts for Music City Dirt by Blake Eccles. We needed a bold and simple, minimalist book cover that we could extend into a series. Some of these I like but they would have been harder to … – From http://bookcovers.creativindie.com.

The Age of Uncertainty: More Book Covers – More Book Covers. Here are my favourite book covers from last week: It could be a poster for the Big Society, with a young David and Samantha Cameron looking rather contemptuously at the boy from the local slums . – From http://ageofuncertainty.blogspot.com.

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Quick Books Via Quick Writing

Wired Magazine January 2012

According to the January 2012 issue of Wired magazine, here are a few well-known writers who knew how to churn out a great book quickly. I hope these examples will inspire you with your writing.

Ray Bradbury, working on a typewriter in the UCLA Library where they charged 10 cents an hour, pounded out his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 in a very fast nine days.

Anthony Burgess wrote his novel A Clockwork Orange in just three weeks.

Sara Gruen, inspired by National Novel Writing Month, wrote the first draft of her novel, Water for Elephants, in just four weeks.

Jack Kerouac used a 120-foot-long roll of paper to type out his classic On the Road beatnik memoir.

Penelope Mortimer wrote her novel The Pumpkin Eater in just a matter of months.

Georges Simenon blasted out all 75 Inspector Maigret novels in less than two weeks each. He wrote the novels in French and didn’t always have time to check out the English translations.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in less than a week – even after burning the first draft when his wife criticized it. His novel was inspired by a nightmare.

John Kremer