I know a few writers who complain about a lack of readers and sales but then shoot down every marketing strategy. Most of the time it’s ...

I've been doing a lot of research regarding small to medium sized publishers. I'm mostly looking for those who accept YA, so if you ...

I'm a sucker for a great book cover. In fact, I've spent hours researching different designers who provide both premade book covers ...

One might think that choosing a title for a book is easy, comes naturally. And maybe that's true for some people, but for me? Not so muc...

Finally, there’s these, which will really make you (and me!) think: Can we create a situation where our character is unprepared? In over ...

 As promised, I’ve got more questions to make you think about what you’re writing. This is all stuff I found elsewhere, either in books, on...

A while back I shared with you all some questions I ask about my characters in order to bring them more fully to life. You can read that...

Charity recently posted about world building, and her post inspired this one.  *Waves at Charity*  There have been times when I’ve come acr...

I know some of you have never worked with an editor, and some of you have, but I have a few things to say about the Editor/Author relationsh...

Follow the Guidelines I’m sure I’ve told you some things you already know, but maybe I’ve told you something you didn’t, or possibly shed...

This week should wrap up my Mistakes in Submissions topic.  Other than one or two posts that were inspired by the posts of other moderators,...

I had two excellent comments the other day and they're sparking a full blog post. The first was by Han Hills and he asked about tips o...

Today, I'm bringing you two posts. ;-) I got sidetracked yesterday (oops) because I was working hard on creating my YouTube channel . So...

I read an article this morning on how a mother goes about telling her 15-year-old daughter she couldn’t write. The premise of this arti...