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The Anatomy of a Writer’s Website
If you want to get your writing noticed and don’t have a website, you’re falling behind. A website is essentially your online business card—it shows editors and publishers you can do the job, nets...
View ArticlePublishing 101: What You Need to Know
It might sound like an unfair stereotype, but it’s true: Those of us who have worked in publishing can attest to the obvious fact that few first-time writers have the slightest idea of what goes on...
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Author Q&A: Dinty W. Moore
What message do you find yourself repeating over and over to writers? There is no shortcut. Good writing takes work, stubborn revision, and more than anything, the willingness to dig deeper and deeper...
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Get the Inside Track to Agents
Ask the Pro: Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner Super-agent Rachelle Gardner shares the inside scoop on her pet peeves, the worst query she’s ever received and what her dream client would be like. by...
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Writer’s Workout
The Writer’s Workout: 366 Tips, Tasks, & Techniques from Your Writing Career Coach by Christina Katz Writer’s Digest Books, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1-59963-179-0 ISBN-10: 1-59963-179-2 $19.99 paperback,...
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Writer’s Workout Excerpt
Excerpt from The Writer’s Workout by Christina KatzCULTIVATE CLARITY When you write something needlessly prolix and convoluted, there’s a reason for it, and that reason is usually a lack of clarity and...
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Writer’s Workout Exclusive
Download a free motivational poster to keep you moving as your build your writing career.Read an Excerpt! Learn how to cultivate clarity, inventory ideas, write richly, and serve up words. About the...
View ArticleDo You Need a Publisher Anymore? Hachette and J.A. Konrath Duke It Out
By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaidWith self-publishing tools proliferating and traditional publishing business models in flux, authors, agents and book-industry...
View ArticleHow to Sell Your Manuscript Without an Agent
When people hear my story, some say breaking into a prestigious New York publisher without a literary agent was a coup. Others say it was pure stupidity.I’m going with coup.Sure, most first-time...
View ArticleHow to See Your Work Through an Agent or Publisher’s Eyes
You’ve just finished your umpteenth revision of your first novel and you’re riding high on endorphins. The passion and dedication that brought you to this feeling of achievement is palpable. If only...
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Ghostwriting: A Business Blueprint You Need to Succeed
All professional writers share the challenge of creating a profitable business around their passion. Ghostwriters often have the added challenge of not being able to discuss or share the work they have...
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A Surprising Plan for Drafting Your Book Proposal
It may surprise you to learn that the optimal order in which you write your proposal does not match the order of the final proposal; in fact, the writing order has little to do with the proposal’s...
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Free E-book Promotions—Are They Right for You?
If you’re a self-published author, you know it’s an arduous task to get your books noticed, and as the self-publishing industry continues to expand, there is a growing difficulty for authors to stand...
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Should You Grant an Exclusive Read of Your Novel to an Agent?
Killer Query Letter Kit Available Here Q: I recently had an agent respond to one of my queries and request my full manuscript, but he wants a six-week exclusive read on my book. I don’t want to blow my...
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How to Write the Perfect Query Letter
One of the easiest ways to learn what makes a good, standard query letter is simply to see an example of one that does its job well. If you write fiction or narrative nonfiction, a query letter is your...
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What It’s Like to Land a Book Deal
From the moment you touch fingers to keyboard or pen to paper, you dream of this moment. Through the long months or years. The worry. The fear. The crushing self-doubt that makes your cursor hover over...
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9 Tips and Strategies for Promoting Your Book Locally
In the December 2014 issue of Total Funds for Writers, C. Hope Clark offers some great advice for authors who want to increase their odds of selling their books: “Don’t be invisible or you wrote the...
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Why Facebook Is My Dream Publicist
I have Luddite tendencies, yearning for the days when people read newspapers and did needlepoint by the fire after dinner. Yet I’ll be posting a link to this article on Facebook, grateful for its...
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How to Create an Inspiring Work Space (for under $20)
Every writer deserves “a room of one’s own,” as Virginia Woolf famously put it. If space is at a premium in your life, though, it can be tough to claim your territory where you can explore your ideas...
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A Writer’s Guide to Defamation and Invasion of Privacy
A memoir is your story, but of course it will involve many other people. Most of us have not led completely charmed lives. Everyone has ups and downs, and those who write memoirs usually have had...
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