NY Times Bestseller Carla Neggers & The Writer’s Loft on The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Show

Nov. 17, 2010 - PRLog -- NEW YORK, NY (November 16th – November 22nd, 2010): Jerry Cleaver, teacher, writing coach, and creator of The Writer’s Loft, Chicago’s most successful writers’ workshop for the last twenty years, will talk with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov about how the creative process works when writing a fiction book.

Mr. Cleaver will also talk about who is really poised to write fiction and whether authors need to know how the story ends before they begin writing it. He’ll also share tips for novelists and talk about what stops them from finishing their books.

NY Times bestselling author Carla Neggers will discuss with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov her new book, Cold Dawn, in her bestselling Black Falls series and why she wrote this book.

Ms. Neggers will also talk about how she writes her novels, how she first got published, her great relationship with her literary agent and how she’s using her books as her hook. She’ll also reveal how she comes up with her plot twists and share advice for new novelists that she wish she had known when she wrote her first book.

Host Jennifer S. Wilkov will discuss why fiction is so popular during her Education Corner segment during the show.

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The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” Radio Show airs weekly on Tuesdays at 9:00am on the WomensRadio Network at WomensRadio.com and is syndicated on Live365.com. The “Your Book Is Your Hook!” show was created to provide the opportunity to go behind the books and discover the process from thought to sales of how other authors have succeeded in getting published and how they use their book as their hook with someone who is successful in this field and experiencing the same journey herself.  Listeners also find out about industry professionals and resources to help them as a writer and author with their book projects so they can write, market, publish and make money with their books.

Ms. Wilkov is a best-selling, award-winning author, an award-winning freelance writer, a speaker and trainer, the creator of the trademarked “From Thought to Sales In 90 Days” book process and a book business consultant for other authors and writers. Her experience and knowledge of the book business and the people in it as well as her understanding of the author’s experience from conceiving the idea to getting published are vital parts of the experience of the show.  The show has left guests wanting to come back for more.

Some of Ms. Wilkov’s most prominent guests include Dominique Raccah (Publisher of Sourcebooks & Co-Chair of the Book Industry Study Group), Larry Goldbetter (President of the National Writers Union), Julia Cameron (International Bestselling Author), Victoria Moran (Oprah-featured Author of ten books including an international bestseller), Suzy Welch (3-time NY Times Bestselling Author & Keynote Speaker at the WBENC 2010 Annual Conference), Deborah Brody (Executive Editor of Harlequin’s Nonfiction Program), Katharine Sands (Literary Agent with Sarah Jane Freymann Agency & Author), Peter Rubie (CEO & Literary Agent of Fine Print Literary Management & Author), Jennifer DeChiara (Literary Agent & President of Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency), Michael Larsen & Elizabeth Pomada (Literary Agents at Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency and hosts of the San Francisco Writers Conference), Beth Werner (Director of Sales & Marketing at Kirkus Media including Kirkus Reviews and Kirkus Discoveries), Joel Comm (4-time NY Times Bestselling Author and new media innovator), Mari Smith (former President of the International Social Media Association, author and dubbed “The Pied Piper of Online Media” by FastCompany.com), Brunonia Barry (NY Times Bestselling Multiple Award-Winning Fiction Novelist), Ken Corday (Author and Executive Producer of NBC’s Daytime Drama “Days of Our Lives”), Kathy Kinney (Co-Author, Actress well-known as Mimi Bobeck from the “The Drew Carey Show”), Jill Shure (2002 Ben Franklin Award winner for Popular Fiction and the Publisher of Syntax Books), Jan McInnis (comedienne, author, professional speaker & humor writer who has written for the Tonight Show monologues) and other industry professionals including a Hollywood producer, a TV news producer turned publicist, a ghostwriter, social media experts, authors in various genres and many more. Photos and more information www.yourbookisyourhook.com.

Women’s Online Media and Education Network (W.O.M.E.N.) began with a very large mission: to give women (and other lesser hear voices) the opportunity to have a much larger voice over a great geographic area.  Today, W.O.M.E.N. publishes WomensRadio.com, a rich streaming content site; WomensCalendar.org, the largest listing of women’s events internationally and nationally; the WR Channel; WRMusicReview.com, and AudioAcrobat.com, a sensational tool anyone can use to produce and/or publish streaming audio, video and podcasts anywhere on the web.

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Your Book Is Your Hook! is a full service consulting practice that serves authors, writers and wannabes as well as the entire book publishing industry with its endeavors. Best known for Its popular weekly radio show, robust blog, trainings and advice.

Through the popular radio show named after her practice, "Your Book Is Your Hook!", which can be heard every Tuesday morning at 9:00am on WomensRadio.com, and the accompanying show blog at YourBookIsYourHook.com/blog, Jennifer S. Wilkov brings her experience and knowledge of the book business and the people in it as well as her understanding of the author’s experience from conceiving the idea to getting it published to loyal listeners each week.

Ms. Wilkov is a best-selling, award-winning author, an award-winning freelance writer, a speaker and trainer who focuses on supporting writers with the essentials to become a bestseller: a great project, a strong platform and a well-polished pitch, presentation and hook for their book.