Writing, self-publishing, book marketing, making a living with your writing
Writing a book is a process and it can be broken down into parts. There's the idea gathering and then creative outpouring of the first draft when you can banish critical voice. But then the …
Continue Reading about Writing And Editing Fiction: 7 Things To Fix In Your First Self-Edit →
The first novel is definitely the hardest! You think you have internalized how a story works as a reader and then you discover there is so much more to learn. In this article, Natasa Lekic from New …
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It's a crowded marketplace these days and you need a quality book to even have a chance of standing out. In my opinion, one of the best investments to help your book become the best it can be is …
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The fast-growing self-publishing environment is attracting all kinds of start-ups and companies that intend to serve authors. However, most of them seem to aim at the periphery of what authors really …
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This is a continuation of the editing Q&A with my fiction editor, Jen Blood, based on questions submitted to me in a recent survey. You can read the first half of the interview here. It covers …
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These days I'm objecting to the term 'self-publishing,' because we all need a team to put a great book out into the world. This is not something you do by yourself. I currently work with a number …
