Speaking Online? Invest in the Right Equipment
© 2021 Mark Prasek Writing often leads to speaking, and nowadays that means online. Just as you want your writing to be topnotch, you’ll want your speaking engagements to reflect…
Sharing Your Gift
© 2021 Heather Mertens We love to give gifts to others. Yet we sometimes forget that we’ve all been given gifts to share, and I’m not just talking about the…
Tips for a Successful Book Launch Team
© 2021 Karen Sargent Launching a book is hard. I’m almost always on somebody’s Facebook launch team because I want to help my author friends find my reader friends. Here are a…
How to Build a Stable Author Platform Faster
© 2020 Patricia Durgin At a conference recently, a stranger asked, “Aren’t you Patricia Durgin? Your programs are so helpful. Thank you.” Service initiated those kind words.Are you serving your audience?…
Why Writers Need Websites
© 2020 Rhonda Dragomir “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…and of course, the Boogie Man.” This mashup quote by comedian Pat Paulsen underscores a fear of…
3 Ways to Improve Your Author Facebook Page
© 2020 Shel Harrington A common mistake writers make when we set up an author Facebook page is making it all about us. Our potential readers find posts about our…
What the #@#@#@?
© 2019 Corabel Shofner Writers of a certain age panic when told we must develop a social media “presence.” Okay, we learned Facebook, but no, Facebook is not where it’s at…
5 Ways Getting an Agent Is like Dating
© 2019 Bob Hostetler At a recent writers’ conference, I enjoyed my first “speed dating” experience. Maybe I should clarify. “Yes, you should,” my wife says. In these “speed dating”…
Leveraging a Newsletter
© 2018 Tracy Crump The Write Life (TWL) turns ten this month. Marylane and I started with just nine subscribers who attended our first workshop on writing for Chicken Soup for…
The High Concept Novel
© 2018 DiAnn Mills Are you a novelist striving for a high concept story? Have you heard the term and not fully understood what it means? Worse yet, has an…