The Self-Made Writer

Traditional publishing? Author services? “Vanity presses”? Self-publishing? The options can be overwhelming. When author Tanyo Ravi...

I don't normally enter writing contests (not that I'm opposed to them), but three years ago, I submitted the first three page...

I first thought of business creep as the dance of an author between creative work and the business side of writing, especially promoti...

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ~Ernest Hemingway My only daughter got married two years ago, on a bluff overlo...

I’ll start, as I sometimes do, with a confession: I’ve not been especially interested in crowdfunding books. At the heart of my not-esp...

In a recent workshop on publishing, I opened the session with a brief exercise. First, I asked participants to write for a few minutes ...

As I’ve said here before (not that it’s any big revelation), there’s not a lot of money in books . So most of us authors (even big sell...