Category: How To and Tips
How I Learned to be a More Courageous Communicator
by Michelle Gladieux I’m a fan of communication that aligns with one’s innermost values. I often ask my coaching clients where they’re using full-mind, full-body, and full-heart communication. As I’ve worked to overcome shyness and negative self-talk, I’ve found little things in communication make a big difference. I try to listen more patiently these days. […]
Running Wild: The Origins of a Groundbreaking Publisher
As the powerhouse founder of Running Wild Press, Lisa Diane Kastner has been featured in Forbes and has claimed a spot on multiple “Best of” lists. In her acquisition editorial endeavors, she has identified talent like Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) and Tori Eldridge (Dance Among the Flames) among many […]
From Architecture to Thrillers: The Surprising Links between Academic Writing and Commercial Fiction
By Mailan Doquang I’m an architectural historian by training. I’ve spent my career researching, writing about, and teaching the history of medieval French architecture, of buildings like Notre-Dame of Paris. In 2018, nearly a decade after completing my doctoral degree, I published The Lithic Garden: Nature and the Transformation of the Medieval Church (Oxford University […]
Our “Unmet Mentors”
By Catherine Browder I was 29 and teaching in Japan when I decided to write fiction. I had always had the desire to write but was deflated by that notion many women of my generation had: I don’t have anything to say. Besides, Life had intervened: marriage, teaching jobs, commutes, dinner preps and vacuuming. Then […]
On Writing Girl, Uncoded: A Memoir of Passion, Betrayal, and Eventual Blessings
By Brandi Dredge What inspired you to write a book? I love that question because the answer is the perfect blend of what is known and what isn’t. What we can see, hear, taste, touch, and what we can’t. The inspiration is the physical and spiritual that melded together to create a comforting and hearty […]
Launch Diaries: The Day I Stopped Querying
I spent three years in the query trenches, determined to land a literary agent. For much of that time, I wasn’t part of a writerly community (didn’t believe I qualified), had told no one what I was attempting (seemed easier should I fail), and didn’t know any published/aspiring fiction authors. All I had were loose […]
On Storytelling and the Tarot: A Personal Journey by Kris Waldherr
by Kris Waldherr One of my favorite literary touchstones is Dante’s Inferno. The story of the poet’s pilgrimage through the underworld has fed some of my creative projects as an illustrator and writer. The Inferno kicks off with one of the most famous sentences ever set on paper. To paraphrase roughly in English: “In the middle of the […]
Six Things You Can Do To Support The Authors In Your Life
By Andrea J. Stein, author of Typecast and Dear Eliza When babies are born, there are celebrations galore. Showers are thrown. Gifts are given. Visits are paid. In many ways, books are authors’ babies. They take hours and hours (truthfully, years!) of work to create and cultivate, and then they face a big world full […]
Creating the Writing Career You Want
By Tiffany Yates Martin Four years ago, in April of 2020, my first book for authors released right as the world shut down in the acute initial panic of a global pandemic. The book, Intuitive Editing, felt like my life’s work, the culmination of my decades working in the publishing industry as an editor: a […]
Lessons in Publishing by Marilyn Simon Rothstein
by Marilyn Simon Rothstein Getting published saves time. That’s because it’s no longer necessary to spend hours yearning to be published. Nine out of ten authors are “bestselling”. The rest are “award winning”. Almost every writer was once a lawyer. Smile at this remark, “I’m constantly lending your new book to friends. Did I mention […]
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