Cover the walls with as many whiteboards as you can. War room teams -- especially design teams -- use whiteboards for everything from story diagrams to research notes. Support a variety of work modes by furnishing the war room with moveable furniture.
Book launch activities begin well before publication day. Authors should have an active social-media presence and ideally, a strong mailing list of people interested in receiving publication news.An industrious author or a service can arrange blog tours -- the Internet version of the author's bookstore tour.ook launch activities begin well before publication day. Authors should have an active social-media presence and ideally, a strong mailing list of people interested in receiving publication news.
What is the purpose of a book? This is a complex question, for books have no purpose that is analogous to that of a plow or a needle. Books do many things, and also nothing at all in a practical sense-except perhaps to weight down papers and keep them from flying away.Books may serve one purpose for the writer and another for the reader-or rather one purpose for the writer and another purpose for each of the different readers who come to the text.his is not to say that the book is entirely unsuccessful: Some elements of it do work well, including the fact that this story is told in some measure as an epic story, a form of storytelling that is probably as old as humanity itself and that crosses cultural as well as historical bou...