The Self-Made Writer

Characters that fail to engage are among the most common reasons that books are rejected or poorly received. What are your characters h...

Deb Vanasse at book festival Once your book has launched, how do you make sure it continues to get noticed? One way is to make author...

Sunrise at Tutka Bay Writers Retreat Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon...

Ah, summer! No matter where you live, it feels so fleeting. What’s an author to do? I’ve known writers who refused to write in the ...

Formalizing the ways in which they support one another, authors worldwide are forming collectives. For  an article published in the IBPA...

image from nomapnomad.com Author Chris Abani says writers could avoid a good many problems if they applied some simple math to the...

It's fun to watch your e-book rise in the rankings when it's free. But is it worth the cost?  A friend whose first book came o...