May 18, 2022
Book design is crucial when you create a book for a young reader. The book size, illustrations, colors, and font all need to complement each other to attract your target […]
November 3, 2021
Twenty years ago, the publishing industry looked vastly different. Indie Author Day was a distant dream. Online retailers like Amazon, where users could easily upload and publish a book, hadn’t […]
October 20, 2021
If you’ve never heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), then you’re missing out on a great opportunity to write a novel! Many writers want to become serious authors. And […]
March 3, 2021
Many new authors make the decision to self-publish their novels instead of going through the hassle of doing so through a publishing company. Self-publishing offers plenty of advantages. For example, […]
January 20, 2021
So you’ve written an article, self-help book, or novel—congratulations! Perhaps you’re in the process of marketing your book and are neck deep in the world of advanced review copy (ARC) […]
June 19, 2019
If you want to get anywhere with your writing, it’s important to treat it as a job, even if you’re not necessarily earning any income from it yet. This is […]
May 23, 2019
You’re at the Grand Canyon. It’s breathtaking in a way that makes you speechless but not wordless. Your hands begin to twitch with the need to capture what you’re smelling, […]
March 28, 2019
Ghostwriting is when a writer pens a work that another person will get the credit for. However, a ghostwriter career involves a bit more than that! First, you, as the […]
March 8, 2019
The web offers seemingly endless opportunities for blog writers. But with so many blogs to contribute to, it’s hard to know how to start blogging. Not every blog is worth […]
February 8, 2019
Being a writer has never been easy. You have to be comfortable with harsh critiques, lots of rejections from agents and publishers, and slogging your way through low-paying gigs before you find […]
December 11, 2018
What do Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, JFK’s Profiles in Courage, and Carolyn Keene’s Nancy Drew series all have in common? They were all written in whole or in part […]
December 4, 2018
Wondering how to start blog writing? You aren’t the only one! At a time when everyone and their cats have blogs, starting your own can be a daunting task. But […]
August 20, 2018
There’s no two ways about it: English is a complicated language. It’s full of subtleties that even proficient writers sometimes miss. It is ironic, isn’t it, how commonly misused words […]