Blog Posts
How to Find Your Writing Style: 8 Tips for Developing Voice and Tone
Just like a famous designer might have a unique fashion style, great writers develop their own signature methods for storytelling and communication. Try these tips for developing a writing style that fits who you are and the stories you want to tell. What Is Writing...
Children’s Book Publishing Tips
If you’ve always dreamed of publishing a children’s book and you want to make that dream a reality, you must make sure that your goal is realistic. Writing books for children can be exciting, but it takes thick skin, an ability to handle rejection, and a commitment to...
Easy Steps to Writing for a Magazine
Writing for a magazine has served as a launchpad for many writers. Starting small like that can be just what you need as a writer to give doors that little nudge they need to open - before you go ahead to talk about things like book contracts, literary agents and...
4 Ways to Successfully Self-Edit Your Manuscript
You’ve finished the first draft of your nonfiction book or an article for publication. It’s time to hand your manuscript over to an editor, right? Wrong. Recently, I met a prospective author who was working on her first book. “So,” she asked, “an editor like you can...
The Little Known Secret to Writing a Bestseller Nonfiction Book
If you’re a writer, it’s fair to assume you’d like to write a bestseller. In my 12-plus years of experience as an editor for a major publisher, bestseller status is the Holy Grail of the writing trade, and it’s not just an ego thing.
5 Things You Need On Your Author Website
A website is a central hub of information and a place for you to guide your readers (and those who may not be readers yet) where to go to connect with you and most importantly, how to buy your books. If you do not have a website set up for your brand, then you are...
7 Social Media Tips For Writers Who Want to Get Noticed
Social media is woven into our lives. We don’t even think before reaching for our phones to check Facebook and Instagram. We catch ourselves scrolling through our feed or drafting the next clever tweet in our head. In a world so entrenched with social media, are we as...
What You Should Know Before Publishing Your First Ebook
Publishing an ebook is a daunting task — so daunting many writers keep their brilliant messages to themselves rather than attempt to navigate the publishing process. What if I told you it’s not as hard as you think? That it doesn’t have to take as long as you think?...
11 Powerful Book Promotion Ideas for Self-Published Authors
If you write only because you love to, you won’t need to bother with marketing. But if you are publishing by yourself and wish to be read by as many among your target audience as possible, you will have to learn an additional skill—how to market your books. It would...
How to Identify and Create Marketable Value in your Book
It’s one thing to write a book, it’s another thing altogether, to sell it. All too many authors get so far into the story with blinders on. Only identifying with the characters in the book and hoping readers will identify in the same way. Without a publisher there is...
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