What Makes Marketing Easier?
We’ve heard that the three businesses people dream about owning are a restaurant, a bookstore, and a B&B. There’s no way I’d ever want to...
Plotting to the End
One writer in my critique group wrote wonderful first chapters in a unique voice with humorous characters. All of us loved his writing....
Self-Publishing Grows Up
My friend Felix wanted to be known as an author. Even before he retired, he worked hours daily on his novel. His wife, an English...
Writers Need a Business Plan
If you are seeking an agent or publisher for your nonfiction book, you will have to provide a business plan. What is that? You ask. In...
The Writer As Victim
Naiveté, desperation, eagerness. What does that spell to you? To me it spells V-I-C-T-I-M. It can also spell W-R-I-T-E-R. A writer eager...
Self-Publishing Don'ts
I enjoy mysteries with an archaeologist or forensic anthropologist as the protagonist, so I happily delved into a book by Dana Cameron...
Making Foreign Rights Sales
Representing my small independent publishing company, Summit Crossroads Press and its fiction imprint, Amanita Books, I am a long-time...
Becoming a Professional Speaker
I recently took a webinar on “How to Become a Paid Writer and Speaker,” presented by Benjamin Vogt. Vogt is a landscape architect who...