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...
Writers' Tip - What's a Comparable Book?
This month, the Maryland Writers’ Association offered a Webinar on writing query letters with literary agent Gina Panettieri. Gina...
Inside the Author’s Booth
Authors like us enjoy telling people about our books, sharing experiences with the people who come by, hearing from those who have read and
