Blog Posts
Social Media for Writers: 5 Quick Fixes to Build Your Brand
Your social media presence is often the first point of contact for your brand online, so it’s important to be purposeful in how your profiles portray you. Even though social media can sometimes feel like an intimidating snowball of doom, it can also be a great way to...
5 Everyday Book Marketing Tips for Authors
As I often tell authors, the good news about book promotion is the same as the bad news: There’s always something more you can be doing for your book. This means that, on one hand, you always have the opportunity to reach new readers, no matter how long your book has...
The Four Commandments of Writing Good Sentences
If you want to write a good sentence, don’t pay any attention to your grammar. I don’t mean “a sentence this like OK is.” I mean don’t automatically think you’ve written a good sentence just because it’s grammatically correct. Lots of bad sentences are grammatically...
5 Ways Writers Can Publish their Books
Writers usually worry about the ways to get their books out there for people to purchase and read. Although a printed book is usually considered the best form of publishing, because it is easy for people to collect the material and even study overtime; however, in...
How to Write a Memoir: 6 Creative Ways to Tell a Powerful Story
Whether you curl up with memoirs on a frequent basis or pick one up every now and again, you know powerful memoirs have the capacity to take you, as a reader, for an exhilarating ride. I’m a connoisseur of memoirs. In the past seven years, I might have read three...
From Author to Reader: The Line of Book Publishing
Basketball, Baseball and Football are team sports, and so is book writing and publishing. The process is a conglomerate of brains and experts who work together to get the manuscript from the author's desk into the hands of readers. Wondering how some books get to...
The ABC of Book Editing
In a previous post, From Author to Reader: The Line of Book Publishing, we examined the stages of book publishing. The process is a conglomerate of brains and experts who work together to get the manuscript from the author's desk into the hands of the reader. And the...
Six Qualities You Need to Be a Successful Author
I’m sure it’s happened to you. You’re chatting with someone — perhaps on the bus, or at a kitchen party — and you mention you’re working on a book. Before you can even talk about the idea, they’re already responding. “Oh yeah,” they say, “I’ve got a killer idea for a...
Are there any Original Writing Ideas Left?
I’ve come to realize that creativity isn’t always coming up with something new; often, it’s simply finding new connections, perspectives, and combinations of elements. Letting go of your ideals regarding originality and reshaping them with this new understanding will send you soaring into less inhibited and better writing experiences.
10 Obvious Truths Writers Always Forget
Writers spend most of their days stuck in their own heads. More than any other occupation, writing requires creative thoughts and emotions that warp reality. As writers, these wild imaginations are valuable. But they can also distract us, fill us with fear, and...
At A Glance
