by Mike Fleming, @Hiveword Ah, mysteries. Who doesn’t love a good one? Elizabeth does. Have you noticed the mysterious codes in her recent tweets? This one, for example: How to create romantic couples [...]
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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Family and friends will sometimes lightly tell me they’re sure that I’m going to pen a bestseller. I respond, just as lightly, that I don’t write those types [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Those who’ve been reading my blog for a while know that I’ve had something of a bee in my bonnet lately over metadata. When I first heard [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As I’m looking for helpful content for writers, I come across lots of different kinds of tools. Some of them I immediately put into use myself, or I’ll [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve recently become very interested in how my site, books, and bio show up in Google searches. This interest in search engine optimization, or SEO, has led me [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve become something of a Google calendar fanatic. I’ve completely outsourced my memory to it and have it open much of the day on my laptop and phone. I [...]
by Jenny Bravo, @BlotsandPlots Are you looking for a simple way to publish your e-book? Are you frustrated with formatting and want a better way? Draft2Digital is changing the game for self-published writers. As a [...]
by Ricardo Fayet, RicardoFayet, @reedsyhq When starting Reedsy, our ambition was not only to connect authors with vetted, hand-picked editors, designers and marketers. As I wrote when I first introduced Reedsy on Elizabeth’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I don’t make a fortune as an affiliate with Amazon and Apple, so far it’s proven to be reliable income. And it’s fairly passive income. The only problem is [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig We had a winter storm in North Carolina a couple of weeks ago. Winter storms in NC are a big deal. There are a few reasons for that. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Self-published writers frequently hear that they need to pass their books by beta readers or critique groups first before sending the stories on to freelance editors (fewer corrections [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although there are so many things that we can try to help us manage parts of our writing careers, I’ve found that some of the best are the [...]
by Joel D Canfield, @SomedayBox I once surveyed all the authors I knew about what they wanted most for their writing. The universal response was “Someone to do my marketing for me.” I considered [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve had a profile and books available on Wattpad for over a year. Wattpad is an online reading platform. It’s a social way to share stories, with readers [...]
by Porter Anderson, @Porter_Anderson The American Library Association’s (ALA) 2015 Annual Conference & Exhibition opened yesterday, Thursday (25th June, #alaac15), in San Francisco with something unprecedented being offered at this year’s gathering: Library [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Recently, I mentioned that I’ve been working on a lot of different things…from foreign rights to promo. My favorite type of promo is passive. I’ve learned that readers [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have a cover conference (via email) this week with my current cover designer, Karri Klawiter. I’ve been told by cover designers in the past that they like [...]
Note from Elizabeth: Several years ago, when I took the self-publishing plunge, the scariest part of the process for me was making an investment in my writing without the promise of a payout. [...]
by Alex J. Cavanaugh, @AlexJCavanaugh While writing itself is usually a solitary venture, everything else we need to accomplish as authors is not. We need input from critique partners, advice on publishing, assistance [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m design-challenged. I learned this early. My father was a teacher and when I was in elementary school, one of my father’s friends (also a teacher) knew I [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Microsoft Word is an incredibly useful tool for writers—and one that I think is easy to overlook because we use it all the time. Features that I use [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve gotten several emails from writers lately, pinging me for resources…which makes me think maybe I could do a better job spotlighting various resources on my blog. So, [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I mentioned briefly in last Sunday’s Twitterific that I was a beta tester for a new tool for writers. Vook’s Author Control launched over a week ago. I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig And now for a very brief public service announcement. Please back up your work. What way is easiest for you? There are so many options. The best way [...]
by Julie Musil, @JulieMusil My hubby and I are die-hard do-it-yourselfers. The home we live in now sits on what used to be nothing but acres of wide open dirt and scrub oak. [...]
by Delia Brendan, @deliabrendan Years ago, I went to a plotting workshop. The workshop leader described a process involving white poster board and multi-colored sticky notes. She described how each sticky note color corresponded [...]
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