All right, so when writing one of the main goals is to draw the reader through the piece. This is done any number of ways with story and characters and plot, but that’s not what we are here to talk about. Instead, today, I’m going to forge into straight up writing craft specifics that are...Read More
When I first did the math to see how much editing per book cost, my heart just about jumped out of my chest. Holy crap, it was that much? I know how my clients feel the first time they see the numbers for an estimate. It’s not cheap. Not at all cheap. Or, if it...Read More
The Neurodivergent Publishing Conference (NPC) happened this past weekend, and I could not be happier at how it went, honestly. While I haven’t talked a lot about it here (and I should have) I have been working very hard at this project for essentially a year straight. So what is it? As the name implies,...Read More
Hey, friends! I’m sorry this blog has been quiet the last few weeks. The holidays have been catching up to me, and I’ve been really busy planning the writing conference I’m putting on with some friends of mine. More on that at the end, though. Let’s get into the reason you clicked the header, shall...Read More
As I write this in early July, there’s something going on, on TikTok which, you may or may not know, is my primary marketing platform. I have between 1,500 and 1,600 followers as I write this, and the number is slowly growing and reflects a lot of hard work and time I’ve put in over...Read More
This is part one of a three-part series I’m doing over the next three weeks where I talk about book taglines, book blurbs, and marketing hooks for authors. I know marketing is about as exciting as watching paint dry for a lot of authors–either that or they feel like it’s going to bite them–but I...Read More
I am slowly starting to get back into the swing of things after my surgery and am finally beginning to have enough brain that I can think. Since I’m doing a talk on this subject for my Discord writing group this week, I figured I’d revisit the Beat Sheet and story structure. I’ve done several...Read More
Today we are going to talk newsletters because it is a subject that is a great mystery for many of my writer friends. I’m going to be talking about it some because I’m just going through the process of reworking mine. Now my newsletter is not very big. I’ve got like thirty subscribers, however I...Read More
The last few weeks I’ve been spending many, many hours a day in study of the part of writing few authors enjoy and most dislike: marketing. I took the free Amazon Ads Course by the excellent Bryan Cohen, attended his seminar on newsletter marketing a few days ago, and I spent hours and hours fine-tuning...Read More
I’m working on a class about this, so that’s forthcoming, but I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about and discussing what, exactly, this means. It is, in my opinion, vitally important (as you might have guessed by the fact that I’m creating a class about it). So what, exactly, do I mean...Read More
