A ton of information exists everywhere…online and off…about how to become a successful author. However, if you follow all that advice, you’ll find yourself going this way and that rather than taking a direct route to publishing success. Even worse, the overabundance of advice can leave you unsure of which path is the best. (After all, every expert has a…
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Have you been wondering how to promote your new book upon release? There’s a strategy you might not have considered that puts to use that hard-earned author platform you’ve been building. Enlist a Street Team along with Super Fans to get the world out about your book. Today, Penny Sansevieri (@Bookgal) explains this strategy and how you can use it…
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Don’t give up on your dream of becoming a published author simply because the process of self-publishing a print book feels overwhelming. Instead, consider publishing an ebook. In this post, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, discusses the pros and cons of publishing ebooks—and waiting to publish a print book until later (if at all)….
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While the publishing industry continually changes, it also remains the same—especially when it comes to the requirements for landing an agent and traditionally publisher. In this guest post, literary agent Gordon Warnock (@gordonwarnock), a founding partner at Fuse Literary, discusses the three things nonfiction writers need to know about publishing or becoming published in the new year and decade. As…
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When you want to become a published nonfiction writer, it’s easy to end up picking all your writing project topics by what you think will “sell.” Writing for the market, as they say, does yield results, but it also can cause you to lose enthusiasm for your work. The writing becomes about business rather than art or self-expression. The best…
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The majority of writers encounter days…or even weeks and months…when they struggle to put words on paper. But there is a way to break through so-called writer’s block: freewriting. In this post, Jay Artale (@BirdsOAFpress), a digital nomad and full-time writer and blogger, discusses how freewriting pushes you to write and, in the process gets your creative juices flowing again….
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Lots of people claim they write slowly. If you are one of them, here’s some good news: You can train yourself to write faster. Today Emmanuel Nataf (@EmmanuelNataf), co-founder of Reedsy, provides five tips for speeding up your writing process. It is a truth universally acknowledged that writing a book constitutes a long game. There’s a reason why authors often…
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