There are a number of myths and/or outdated views on self-publishing today. They tend to undermine and demean the quality of the end product, your book, in the eyes of the mainstream publishing world.
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Category: Writing Tips & Style
Writing Goals: Why they often fall short
At the breaking of the New Year, people around the world set new goals and resolutions for the coming year, with the full knowledge that most fail in achieving/completing their resolutions… but we keep doing it.
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5 Tools Every New Writer Needs, But May Not Know About
Making the decision to write a book, a magazine article or even a blog is an exciting moment filled with big thoughts and even dreams. But reality sets in the first moment that you sit down to actually write. Where do you start? Think of a carpenter trying to build…
What is an Author Platform? (video)
https://youtu.be/-el8gt9JrAc
How to Overcome Writer’s Block
Ways to re-frame and resolve writer’s block.
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The Importance of Author Branding
It is sometimes difficult for authors to realize that successful authors don’t simply promote books, they are promoting a brand. It is the brand that they then use to promote books and other offerings.
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Episode #2 – Pseudonyms
Why do authors use pseudonyms? Check out the YouTube video for answers
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Simplify Your Editing
Grammar still matters. If you are a writer and publish anything: a book, article, blog post, FB post, and even a Tweet without editing it first, you will cost yourself readers. Social media is overrun by misspelled words, mismatched tenses, and word choice problems. I didn’t even mention punctuation.
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How to Build an Author Platform
In a previous post, I answered the common question, ‘What is an Author Platform?’, and to some extent why a writer needs one. This post will discuss the ‘HOW’. I will talk about first steps and some of the tools that can help you along this path, it’s an amazing journey, and often the difference between writing and being able to make a living writing.
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What does the sale of Barnes & Noble mean for them, for writers, and for publishers?
If the rest of you are anything like me, older writers have long lamented the loss of the great independent bookstores. The kind of place that makes you feel like you can actually smell the history written within the books on the shelves. Like a library where you don’t get shushed, or given that look ( you know the look I am talking about). Much of that loss, of course, was caused by the book mega-stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders.
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