Nancy Merritt Bell

With June's arrival and the beach calling out for books to be read, Nancy Merritt Bell on the podcast that brings books to life all summer long.

The resume is essential to publishers, readers and editors, because… well, we need to know you have one!

By Nancy Merritt Bell The Publishing Toolkit First of all, hurrah for finishing your book! Crack out the champers. And cheers again for wanting your new work to have an objective, general-public, possibly non-adoring reading. It might even be worth it. Next, round up the readers — but bypass the family and BFF reads. I actually gave Mom something of mine to read once. Her report was far less than the worship I'd expected. Mom, being a therapist, actually 'shrank' the book and its...