Get Started Blogging
© 2014 Edie Melson Like many writers, you may want to blog to enhance your career but don’t know how to go about it. Here are tips I give my…
How to Talk Like Someone Else
© 2014 Lena Wood “Each speech, however brief, must be worth hearing.” —Richard Walter, Screenwriting We make characters come alive through dialogue. Here are a few tips I’ve used in…
How Well Do You Know Your Characters?
© 2014 Patricia Bradley In six short months, the third book in my Logan Point Series is due. I’m starting to sweat bullets here. I’ve set a deadline to begin…
Be a Professional Writer—All Year Long
© 2014 Gary Hensley Whether a new or veteran writer, you are in the business of writing if your intent is to write long-term and make a living—or at least…
Is Indie for You? Why an Independent Book Publisher Might Be Your Best Route to Publishing Success
© 2013 Eddie Jones For most authors, the route to publishing success begins with a pitch to a large publishing house where most book proposals die in the slush pile.…
9 Tips to Writing for a Woman’s Heart
© 2013 Janet Chester Bly Creative writing begins with an idea. What follows determines the result. The motivation. Perseverance. Research. Drafts and rewrites. The sweat to make it happen. But…
Five Ways NOT to Attract an Editor’s Attention
© 2013 W. Terry Whalin Will Rogers is credited with saying, “You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.” As an acquisitions editor, I read book…
Humor in Fiction
© 2013 Sandra Balzo When I sat down to write my first Maggy Thorsen coffee mystery, Uncommon Grounds, I didn't intend it to be humorous. Why I didn't realize that having…
Creating a Quality e-Product
© 2013 Susan K. Stewart Publisher’s Weekly reported that e-book sales rose by 117% in 2011 while print sales fell. That trend seems to be leveling off now. So for most…
From Soup to Nuts
© 2013 Tracy Crump One mistake authors make in trying to write for Chicken Soup for the Soul and other anthologies is covering too much ground. Chicken Soup wants short stories, not…
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