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…
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…
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…
Why I Can’t Write Now
© 2013 Judy Sliger I have cancer. I have recurrent ovarian cancer. I have recurrent ovarian cancer, and I’ve been on chemo over ten months. The chemo—at best—is barely slowing…
Using Food to Create an Appetite for Your Novel
© 2012 Alice J. Wisler "One cannot think well, live well, sleep well, if one has not dined well," wrote Virginia Woolf. That quote grabbed me, and I used it…
Why Journal?
© 2012 Shirley Corder When I was a child, my mother gave me a diary every Christmas. As an adult, I bought myself one almost every year. I really don't…
The Story Behind the Story
© 2012 Patrick E. Craig In late 2010, I read a blog by Nick Harrison, a senior editor at Harvest House Publishers, whom I had met at the Mt. Hermon…
Will You Make a Difference?
April 2012 © 2012 Marlene Bagnull My seven-year-old granddaughter was here today. We had a long talk about how she disobeyed her mother yesterday, screamed no, and stuck out her…