What is PR for authors? Explore this with scifi romance novelist Keri Kruspe as she shares how a PR experiment made her a better salesperson and netted her some interesting results.
Safety is a huge consideration right now in everyone’s daily lives. As storytellers, however, there is one place where we should never do the safest thing, and that’s in our writing.
In these rule breaking times, we need a different approach to how we drag our books across the finish line. As artists, writers can approach our books with the same spirit as artists who create public art. Because a book IS public art.
Please welcome Novelist, Amy Lane to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. Enjoy!
Discover how to greatly improve your manuscript with revision and feedback with these step-by-step tips in this interview with writing teacher Bonnie Johnston by Karen Ferreira.
You don’t learn how to write only by reading books you enjoy. You also learn how to write by reading books you dislike. So why should you read (even if you don’t finish) books you don’t like?
You may have a million other things calling your attention away from that story you love so much. Balancing work, life, and writing is a challenge, but doable. Here’s some tips for you.
Nothing could have prepared her for the devastating blow she received when her loved one died. The long winding road of how one writer found her way back to writing after the death of a loved one.
The end of winter is nigh, and whether yours has been a winter of discontent or one of satisfaction and productivity, the spring represents a time of new beginnings, new goals, and new challenges.
In this article, a literary lawyer talks about fictional people, specifically, fictional characters that are still protected by copyright.
In addition to taking advantage of this lucrative market, discover 6 reasons to narrate your book by award-winning author, Patricia Simpson.
Are bad reviews something to cry about? They don’t have to be. Discover the benefits of your bad book reviews and even how to welcome them by science fiction romance author, Keri Kruspe.
Book Editing / Guest Columnists
by Guest Contributor · Published March 10, 2020 · Last modified March 9, 2020
Discover 8 common problems in fiction writing to avoid so you can make your story stronger and attractive to an agent or editor and ultimately to your readers.
Who hasn’t had nightmares of losing their work? What do you do when you’ve lost weeks, months, years of work? Explore the pain and perils of starting over with Catharine Bramkamp.
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