My former writing colleague Pam recently attended the Baltimore Book Festival, which brought together indie authors, local book sellers, live readings, and panel discussions. Pam passed along her notes about one panel in particular, Secrets of Self Publishing, which...
This year, Let Freedom Read Day is on September 28 in the U.S. There are several things you can do to defend our communities against book bans that challenge our right to ideas and stories that represent everyone. (And if you’re not in the U.S. but facing similar...
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...
