Alessandro Reale

Award-Winning Children’s and Fantasy Author

Publisher

  • Contacting Literary Agents: How to Write a Query Letter

    Contacting Literary Agents: How to Write a Query Letter

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    I speak a lot about self-publishing because that’s the route I decided to take for my own writing. However, while I found to be self-publishing to be much easier and better suited for my tastes, I don’t think you should count out traditional publishing for your own work. After all, traditional publishing is the big leagues. 99% of the books you find on bookstore shelves are from established publishing houses. Why not take that leap and see if you can make it? Do you think you have what it takes to get published?

    But before you can get published, you need to find a literary agent. And how do you go about getting an agent? You need a query letter.

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  • Finding the Motivation to Write

    Finding the Motivation to Write

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    Remember in high school when you found it so hard to start that long essay, so you kept on procrastinating? Then, once you actually started writing, it became much easier? Guess what? That feeling doesn’t end with high school.

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  • Book Marketing 101

    Book Marketing 101

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    I’m going to be honest with you. No matter how great your book is, it won’t mean jack if you don’t know how to market it. You could write the next Great American Novel on par with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and it could end up gathering dust on the library shelves. In the world of authorship, writing is only half the battle. The real work is getting your book into the hands of readers. But how do you master the art of book marketing?

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  • The Importance of Editing

    The Importance of Editing

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    If there’s one piece of advice that I will always pass on to writers, it’s this:

    EDIT YOUR WORK!

    Did you read that correctly? Here it is again…

    EDIT YOUR WORK!

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  • Releasing a Second Edition of Your Book

    Releasing a Second Edition of Your Book

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    As per usual, I’m going to start off this blog post by drawing from personal experience. I’ll recount a short anecdote about my writing adventures, focused on publishing second editions.

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  • How a Negative Book Review Can Be a Good Thing

    How a Negative Book Review Can Be a Good Thing

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    “…poorly written, reads like a first draft of Mary Sue fanfiction where the author inserted himself into the main character to get back at all the bullies in his life…”

    What you’ve just read was an actual review for my book, “Dodger’s Doorway”. Seems harsh, right? How can someone be so brash and blunt when reviewing an independent author’s first piece of work? I mean, give us a break, right? We’re out here putting our sweat and blood into our writing. You could cut us some slack when reviewing our books.

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  • Self-Publishing vs. “Traditional” Publishing

    Self-Publishing vs. “Traditional” Publishing

    Alessandro Reale

    Award-winning children’s and fantasy author. Amateur break-dance fighter. Part-time Morgan Freeman impersonator.

    For most writers, the ultimate goal is to get published. One of the greatest feelings in the world is holding that first hard copy of your work in your hands. You think to yourself, “Wow, this is the result of my hard work. I’ve accomplished something!” If you’ve had your work published, congratulations! You deserve every bit of success that comes your way! If you’ve self-published, congratulations! You deserve every bit of success that comes your way!

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