By Frances Caballo (@CaballoFrances) Blogging takes work, don’t you agree? You need to plan your topics, and then you should set up an editorial calendar and follow it. Thank goodness there are tools to make blogging easier. No, there isn’t an application that will do the writing for you, but there are apps that will help you decide on your…
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I’m proud to be a hybrid author, one who publishes her work both traditionally and independently, but I’ve recently opted to use assisted self-publishing for my indie books. And I still enjoy and choose traditional publishing when I have the option. Is that odd in today’s publishing world? I don’t think so. Let me explain why. Self-Publishing Takes Me Away…
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By Michele DeFilippo (@1106Design) If you’ve ever wondered how much difference a professionally designed book interior can make to the appeal of your book, you’ll want to read today’s post by book designer Michele DeFilippo and don’t miss the before and after examples! Wrapping a beautiful cover around a cheap or tacky book interior is a big mistake; a book…
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Impact. That’s what you want to achieve with your nonfiction writing projects. I don’t care if you write an essay, a blog post, an article, or a nonfiction book. If your work doesn’t positively or meaningfully impact your ideal readers, those people in your target market, that piece of nonfiction writing fails to do its job. You fail to do…
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For years I kept a journal. I wrote in it religiously. In fact, I still have many of those journals on a shelf in the closet of my office. I would sit down in the morning and, as part of my morning routine, after exercise and meditation, I’d write in my journal. I also tried doing this as Julia Cameron’s…
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Humans have had an inclination to write down their experiences almost since the beginning of time, it seems. We’ve kept diaries and journals, writing in them regularly, mostly for our own purposes and doing so, for the most part, with the express intention of keeping them private. The advent of the Internet Age, however, changed that. Suddenly it became possibly…
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By Helen Sedwick (@HelenSedwick) Today lawyer Helen Sedwick cautions writers about using self-publishing service companies, also known as subsidy publishers. Writing a book is a romantic adventure complete with hope, excitement, anxiety, and frustration. Perhaps that’s why writers are so vulnerable to cads promising literary fame and fortune. Specifically, I am talking about self-publishing service companies such as Author Solutions…
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