If you want people to be buying your book, then you need people to be talking about your book. And if you want people to be talking about your book, then YOU need to be talking about it. That doesn’t mean spam-posting all of your followers 24/7, but you do need to...
It’s Friday the 13th, so let’s talk superstitions! For storytellers across many genres, superstitions can be a great way to dig into and expand your world-building. They can also provide interesting and fun insight into characters and their psyches. Superstitions,...
What do you do if your draft is “complete” but you feel that it’s not long enough? We often hear about drafts that are too wordy—pushing the boundaries of even the chunkiest fantasy word counts. But it’s possible to wrap up a draft and feel the opposite: that...
Disclaimer: I’m not a business guru or coach. I’m a former project manager, educator, and the daughter of a small business owner. I’m a strategist and a planner—so much so that a friend once said she wished that I could be the CEO of her life. In my mid 30s, I decided...
“I want to be an editor. What should I do? Where should I start?” I get a variation of this message a lot. These folks are specifically asking about freelance editing (as opposed to working as an editor for a publisher), and a while ago, I drafted a template...
