Let’s Go Fishing
© 2024 Vanessa Davis Griggs My father was an expert fisherman. It didn’t matter if it was on the lake or deep-sea fishing, he rarely returned home empty-handed. The goal…
Interviewing Someone for Your Book or Article Part 2
© 2024 Tez Brooks In our last article, we discussed how to prepare for an interview. Today, we will explore how to conduct the actual interview like a pro. Including…
Interviewing Someone for Your Book or Article Part 1
© 2024 Tez Brooks In 1 Corinthians 10:31, Paul prompts believers to do everything for the glory of God. So, it makes sense our research for writing should also be…
Getting the Illustrations Right
© 2023 Pam Burgess Writing children’s books is a delicate dance between words and illustrations that bring those words to life. If you get it right, it’s a beautiful thing…
Could a Writing Coach Help Me?
© 2023 Diana Flegal As a literary agent for eighteen years, I witnessed many writers sabotage their writing goals and career by falling prey to well-meaning but bad advice. The…
How to Attract an Agent—in a Good Way
© 2023 Linda Glaz So let’s dig in and see what and how you can do things in order to get an agent’s attention—the good kind, not the kind that…
There, I Said It!
© 2022 Patti Shene Gonzales I’ve heard it said that the word said is invisible on the printed page. Perhaps this is true for most readers, but for this one…
Use Canva to Create Your Own Graphics
© 2021 Josephine Massaro Maybe you ask or pay others to create graphic work for you. I have used several sites to create my own but never Canva. That is…
The Little Things
© 2020 Kay DiBianca I thought novel-writing would be easy. After all, my grades in English class had always been good, and I was a voracious reader. How hard could…
Amy Newmark’s Secrets to Writing for Chicken Soup for the Soul—Part 2
© 2020 Tracy Crump Chicken Soup for the Soul callouts have been the bedrock of our newsletter since we began in 2008. I can’t thank Amy Newmark, author, editor-in-chief, and…