Simple Tips for Creating a Good Book Poster

Written by Laura Hickey


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Reviews

It's a good idea to show blurbs of your favorable book reviews both customer and editorial.

Optional Items

A photo of yourself- Sometimes customers feel better buying with a face in mind, but this sometimes can backfire.

Table of Contents- This part may become very long on your posters so perhaps partial view ofrepparttar TOC would be best.

Contact/Homepage- Your customers may have questions, please keep in mind that this could lead to spam. Directing others to your homepage would be a better option. Treat your e-mail as if it were your phone number.

Don't forget to make sure your poster is printed on good quality paper with rich ink. Good luck!



About the Author: Laura Hickey is an up and coming author. Her work includes Mysterious Chills and Thrills for Kids and a co-writer position for the TV pilot, Officially Lush. You can read more free articles by Ms. Hickey on her homepage:

http://www.laurahickey.com




Are Creative Stereotypes Holding You Back?

Written by Michele Pariza Wacek


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Creativity comes in many shapes and sizes. It also dresses in a variety of outfits -- from t-shirts and paint-splatted jeans to suits and ties to cocktail dresses to, yes,repparttar all-black look.

Don't worry about how your creativity relates to how you look or act. There's no correlation betweenrepparttar 128483 two.

3) In school…

Again, there are no studies linking creativity to getting bad grades or being a social misfit. Creativity is just as likely to have been class president as it was to have been caught smoking inrepparttar 128484 bathroom. Or kicked out of school altogether. (Now, whether those schoolyard memories are fodder for creative pursuits is a topic for another day.)

Basically it comes down to this -- creativity doesn't fit into any neat box. Whether that box may be unconventional or conservative. Whether it's covered with clay and furiously spinning pots or impeccably dressed and churning out million-dollar deals. Whether it's dressed in black and discussing Satre in a coffee shop or pushing a stroller in small-town America.

Creativity is just that. Creative. It doesn't care what package it comes in.

It only cares that you use it.

Creativity Exercise -- Take Away The Power of Stereotypes

Go back torepparttar 128485 quiz. Look atrepparttar 128486 answers you chose for yourself. (If one of my answers didn't fit -- which is entirely possible -- turn your answer into fill-in-the-blank.) Look atrepparttar 128487 answer you instinctively felt a creative person would have selected. I'm going after instinct here -- don't worry about what you read inrepparttar 128488 article. Or go back and see how you answered before you readrepparttar 128489 article.

Do you have two different answers? Describe what makesrepparttar 128490 answers different and why.

Do you describe yourself in completely opposite terms as you would someone creative? Why is that? Do some journaling onrepparttar 128491 answer.

Now try describing yourself again and this time addrepparttar 128492 statement "and that makes me creative" or "yet I still am creative" atrepparttar 128493 end. For instance: "I hate sunrises and that makes me creative. I was a model student yet still I am creative." Write these out ten times each day until you begin to believe it.

(Source: Freeing Your Creativity: A Writer's Guide by Marshall Cook)



Michele Pariza Wacek is the author of "Got Ideas? Unleash Your Creativity and Make More Money." She offers two free e-zines that help subscribers combine their creativity with hard-hitting marketing and copywriting principles to become more successful at attracting new clients, selling products and services and boosting business. She can be reached at http://www.TheArtistSoul.com.


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