Category: How To and Tips
Reading Is More Important Than Writing
Carissa Ann Lynch I know what you’re thinking: I’ve heard this before. If you want to be a writer, you must first and foremost be a reader blah blah blah … Well, it’s true, actually. But I’d like to offer some deeper insight into my own writing process and how the role of reading plays […]
Things I Wish I’d Known About Book Marketing
Things I wish I’d known about book marketing: A few specific tips for the author who wants to sell books as well as write them! (1) When people ask me how I found my agent, I tell them about Publishers Marketplace https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/. This is an enormous database that lists (nearly) every book deal, as well […]
My Long and Winding Road to Publication
It’s been a long and winding road from the time I first started journaling about the sudden death of my best friend’s twelve-year-old son, Brendan, until the day my novel, Winter of the Wolf, was published. “Long” equating to eighteen years, and “winding” because nothing about it was straight forward. At the time of Brendan’s […]
Writing for Children is more than Just Child’s Play
Writing for Children is more than Just Child’s Play by Lorraine Mace, author of Vlad the Inhaler – Hero in the Making With the rising market awareness of children’s books, it is not surprising that many would-be authors are deciding to try their luck with this genre, believing it to be an easy route to […]
How Writing Has Changed Over the Years
I have been an author a little over seven years now, but I’ve been a writer all my life. With three college degrees and working as a lawyer and college professor, I have had my share of writing—everything from term papers to legal briefs. And I find writing in an academic or professional setting is […]
Writing What You Know…With a Twist
By Rebecca Tucker When I tell friends what my upcoming novel, Secrets My Mothers Kept, is about, they inevitably respond with “So, it’s about your life!”, to which I respond, “Not exactly.” I don’t blame them for thinking so, however. After all, writers are often told to ‘write what you know’ and it’s true that, […]
How I Made Dreaded Book Marketing Fun
I was at a low. I’d just broken up with my literary agent after three years, and it felt as if my publishing dreams would never come true. I couldn’t sleep. I was cranky. When The Secret by Rhonda Byrne was published in 2006, I didn’t read it but at 2am one night the Netflix […]
Writing Challenges: Part III of III Discouragement as a Creativity Problem
Writing Challenges: Part III of III read part one HERE And part two HERE Discouragement. Yes. As a writer, you will inevitably encounter it — and in many different shades. There’s the gray of rejection, the gunmetal of disappointing book sales, the long shadow of thoughtless reviews, the steely cold of unfortunate timing, the utter […]
Seven Tips For Writing Success And Sanity
My journey from inspiration to publication of my debut novel, What’s Left Untold, was nearly 11 years in the making, and I have learned many writing lessons along the way. Write as often as you can, about anything and everything. As a competitive triathlete, I had a rigorous training schedule that prepared my mind and […]
Goodreads, A Hot Desert or Book-Loving Oasis?
Is Goodreads a vast, barren desert with no end or glass of water in sight? Or can we find a lush garden oasis of positive things on the all-book platform? Years ago, before I had a book published, I dove into Goodreads as a reader. Marking everything I’d ever read, rating books with golden stars, […]
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