A Writer’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
I spent much of this year doing the memoir of a billionaire-with-a-b. I’m under a strict NDA about who it is, but I can tell…
Special Reports
10 Bad Ways to Open a Story
A friend of ours is married to a literary agent. On a day where she works through submissions, she goes through about 100 per hour….
Authors and AI Going Into 2024
All of a sudden, everybody is talking about AI. Everybody has an opinion. They range from the deeply knowledgeable to the hilariously uninformed, from “the…
Quick and Dirty Writer’s Guide to Instagram
Even five years ago I would have recommended authors use Facebook for their social media mojo over getting involved with Instagram. A lot of things…
Points of View — Writing in the Second Person
Welcome to our final installment in our series about point of view in writing. Point of view is the window through which a reader experiences…
Audiobooks for Fun and Profit – Part 5: Selling Your Audiobooks
The journey of creating an audiobook is filled with exciting decisions, creative challenges, and technological marvels. From deciding whether to dive into the world of…
The Most Common eBook Formats
When self-publishing, how unfair is it that once your book is finished, it’s far from finished? Among the myriad post-writing tasks that fall to self-published…
20 Free Ways to Market Your Book
For the last few months, we’ve been talking about ways to pay for advertising. Well, the holidays are upon us, and that means you’re stretching…
Points of View — Writing in the First Person
Point of view fully invests any writing project, particularly in fiction. Whichever choice you make, your story and your reader’s experience, will be different. They…
Audiobooks for Fun and Profit – Part 4: Using AI For Narration
Over the past few months, we’ve explored the potential of audiobooks as a lucrative addition to an author’s portfolio, delved into the process of narrating…
November Holidays
Here are some author-relevant holidays or observances that take place during the month of November. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, but…
The Dos and Don’ts of a Book Chapter
Today we’re getting back to basics. You’re familiar with chapters as a concept, but not many beginning writers (and far too few advanced writers) have…
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