How to Avoid Wasting Precious Writing Time on Social Media Marketing

If you’re a writer, then you’ve probably heard about using social media to attract readers. The attention around it has been pretty difficult to ignore. However, some say social media is all hype and that the effort an author spends there doesn’t do much for book sales. Over the past few months, some have questioned [...]

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Playing with Time When Writing Memoir

I may have mentioned that I attended the Short Story America Festival a few weeks ago. One of the sessions was about how writers control time in stories using Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” as an example. The class, like the rest of the festival, focused on fiction writing, but creative [...]

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Where to Find a Literary Agent for Your Book

When I think about finding a literary agent, I think about needles in haystacks. The publishing world is enormous–just take a walk through the library. There are so many different kinds of books. And there are hundreds–possibly thousands–of agents 0ut there, all of whom have connections with editors and publishers who specialize in certain types [...]

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Weekend Reading: Facing Rejection, Banned Books, and a Million Dollars

Welcome to the weekend! Here are a few articles and resources that caught my eye this past week… Rejection is not fun. Believe me; I’ve become intimately familiar with it lately. But it comes with the writing territory, right? YES! Krissy Brady from Krissy Media Inc. recently published a fantastic article about how to handle [...]

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Is Your Book Ready to Publish?

Is your book ready to publish? Is this manuscript you’ve slaved over for so long ready to send off? All writers must face the question: Is it done? Although I think it gets easier with experience, this question can be difficult to answer, particularly when dealing with our own work. I have trouble answering it [...]

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