The Self-Made Writer

After sixteen years and twelve books traditionally published, plus another year of independent and hybrid publishing (two re-released t...

It’s a favorite among critique partners: the gotcha game of point of view. To play, you need only a sharp eye for inadvertent shifts in...

It has happened to all of us: we buy a book, eagerly anticipating a great read, and discover after the first chapter or two that it’s not...

Following my post on “The Way In: Where to Publish,” a reader wrote with questions so well-articulated that I asked if I might answe...

If you’ve been publishing for any length of time, either traditionally or independently, you know that there’s little money in books ....

Publishing has never been easy. First, there’s writing the beast, be it a poem or a story or an essay or an entire book. A large accomp...

If you’ve spent any time at all researching agents, publishers, and submissions guidelines, you’ve no doubt encountered one phrase ...