by Laura Smith, @lsmith335 Editing Is Crucial Let’s face it, even a good first draft can look like a hot mess when it’s first read. Every decent English teacher I’ve ever had has [...]
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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have a lot of sympathy for writers who get great ideas for other projects (known as SNI…Shiny New Ideas) while working on a book. When you’re [...]
by Jenny Bravo, @JennyBravoBooks We are in the age of the author. With the rise of self-publishing and hybrid publishing, authors are pumping out books more than ever. We live in a content-based world [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One cool thing about blogging for over ten years is that a lot of the posts form a sort of unexpected diary. I was glancing over some older [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re writing a cozy mystery, there are little things that come up sometimes. Writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure process. You have so many different choices that can take [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Happy New Year! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. One thing I like to do at the beginning of the year is planning. To me, setting up my year on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s kind of interesting when you’ve been blogging as long as I have. Recently, I looked back over some of the posts from 2009 and 2010. My writing [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I usually just jump right into new projects without thinking a lot about it. I follow my outlines and I write what I’ve told myself to write each [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve written before about being intentional about free time. By doing a little planning ahead, I feel a lot more relaxed and recharged. Instead of looking for something [...]
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, @kaath09 Hello, my name is Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and I’m a recovering research-aholic. I know that research addiction is common among writers of speculative fiction (genres that begin with ”what [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve touched on this topic before, although before I was sort of working it through in my mind. What I’m calling ‘series tropes,’ which is what writer Camille [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin All fiction requires the reader to suspend belief in order to follow the story. You have to pretend that you are in a different location with people that you don’t [...]
By Jeffrey Eaton, author of the “Murder Becomes” series, @murderbecomes Each year, more than one million books get released by publishing houses and self-published authors. You read that right – more than one million [...]
By Steven W. Giovinco, @recovreputation 8 Online Reputation Management Tips for Authors, Books, Novels, Fine Art Photography Publications, With Sample Task List Authors–not just plumbers on Yelp or lawyers on Avvo.com–need a positive [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Always leery of more work, I’d put off moving my print books from CreateSpace to KDP Print. With about 20 titles to transfer (the rest were trad-pubbed), I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When the ProWritingAid team recently got in touch with me and offered me the chance to check out their editing tool, I was happy to take them up [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I wanted to pass along a helpful goal-setting and tracking tool for writers. I’ve gotten very into tracking lately. I especially like it when it’s easy to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 45,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Emmanuel Nataf, @EmmanuelNataf 81% of Americans want to write a book in their lifetimes. However, a much smaller percentage actually goes on to publish a book. So what’s stopping them? You’ll hear that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 45,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Joel D. Canfield, @JoelDCanfield To begin, tell me a little bit about yourself. How many of these have you experienced in your writing life during the past two years? I’ll include checkboxes [...]
by Chrys Fey, @ChrysFey Are you on Goodreads? Your answer should be yes. Whether you’re a reader, a writer waiting to published, or an author. Goodreads is an important place to be. As an [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It has taken me a long time to warm up to Goodreads. As a writer, I’m still very wary of some aspects of the environment over there. But [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have a quick, cautionary tale for you today. I released book nine in the Southern Quilting series in late-April. I consider the series to be one that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every once in a while, I’ll grind to a halt with my story. I’ll either want to flesh out a subplot or develop the main plot a bit [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have been building my ARC team (Advance Reader/Review Copy team) organically for years. Organically as in…I didn’t do the building myself. If a reader reached out to [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the questions I’m most asked when I speak is how I come up with my ideas. This, of course, is probably the number one question that all [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Recently, I was looking over my customer reviews on Goodreads (I know…I rarely read my reviews there, although I always read them on Amazon) and one of them [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I work on story subplots two different ways. Sometimes I write them in as I go, including them in the text. Sometimes I write them out separately on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A while back (far enough back that I can’t remember the source), I read an article that suggested writers should include their backlist titles in their author newsletter. [...]
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