Since many new writers don't know whether to find a publisher or self publish or how to write a good query letter to interest publishers and agents in their book, multi-published author Gini Graham Scott has started a series of blogs to help writers know what to do at all stages of developing, pitching, and publishing a book.  She has done so as a regular column for The Publishing Connection (www.thepublishingconnection.com), a newly launched company that is a successor to Publishers and Agents, which Scott started in 2004. She founded the new company in partnership with SEO expert Martin Delgado, who helps clients optimize their websites globally.

      The service works by connecting clients using their own email with a targeted group of book editors, literary agents, and those in the film industry.  And since regular blogging is a proven way to get high SEO rankings, Scott has create a blog for the website to help writers not only know about the company but learn how to get published by knowing how to best contact publishers and agents, publish their own book, or do their own blogging to create or promote their own books.  In turn, Scott will be turning the blogs into a book herself, just as she is advising others to do.

      So far, the first three blogs dealing with these key topics:

      - Three key guidelines for writing a good query letter to book publishers and agents,

      - Should you find a publisher or self-publish

      - Turning your blogs into a book or your book into a blog

      The next blog will deal with how to turn a book into a series of blogs.

      Future blogs will deal with negotiating with publishers, protecting one's online work from copycats, and selling film rights for a book or series of blogs.  And then a dozen of these blogs will become one of Scott's next books.  The company's strategy is to empower writers with these blogs, and then help writers who are ready find a publisher or agent, or publish their book through their own company.

      Scott has developed these tips for success after publishing over 50 books with mainstream publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Warner book, and selling over 20 books to publishers using the forerunner to The Publishing Connection. Plus she has published over 30 books through her own company, including most recently The Battle Against Internet Book Piracy, which has become a scourge of writers and publishers today, as the pirates post their books for free – and who can compete against that, though Scott will be describing some techniques for shutting them down in an upcoming blog. 

      For more details on how the service works, visit www.thepublishingconnection.com, and click on the blog link to see the latest blogs.