How much should you lie, er, exaggerate in your book proposal?

How much should you lie, er, exaggerate in your book proposal?

Honestly, I’m in favor of the absolute truth in nearly all things. However, when it comes to a book proposal that you send to publishers and agents, you are describing a book that likely doesn’t yet exist. (You didn’t make the rookie mistake of writing the whole book before pitching it, did you?) You are…

What you can learn from the honesty of a child selling Girl Scout Cookies

What you can learn from the honesty of a child selling Girl Scout Cookies

Mike Rowe has described the amazing honesty of a Girl Scout he knows who was selling cookies. Children are not nearly as good at lying as grownups are. And we can learn from that. Here’s the Facebook video in which Rowe reads the amazing email that a Girl Scout named Charlotte McCord sent to a potential…