When it comes to marketing your book, you will often hear that you cannot neglect social media. While this is true, media expert Thomas Umstattd warns against using social media as an excuse or a replacement for working on your writing. Instead, Thomas...

How often have you heard a writer say--or even said yourself--"I just want to write books--I don't want to have to sell them, too!" Marketing and bookselling are not always natural tasks for authors, but in today's publishing landscape even traditionally...

When it comes to marketing your book, you will often hear that you cannot neglect social media. While this is true, media expert Thomas Umstattd warns against using social media as an excuse or a replacement for working on your writing. Instead, Thomas...

Literary publicist Stephanie Barko shares the three things an author needs to do to be viable online. These are a website, a blog, and a social suite. Which social profiles you choose are important and the choice is not the same for every author. The...

Literary publicist Stephanie Barko shares the three things an author needs to do to be viable online. These are a website, a blog, and a social suite. Which social profiles you choose are important and the choice is not the same for every author. The...

Author Will Dean brings readers inside his writing cabin in Sweden as he dissects the first chapter of his new thriller, The Last Thing to Burn . Watch as he "marks up" the pages of his book and talks about how its intense story differs from other claustrophobic...

Author Peter Zuckerman describes what he learned from writing Buried in the Sky and how it changed his perspective on life. He also reminds us that as writers, we must depend on our own clear vision and be persistent on our goals, despite what others...

Bethany Hegedus, author and owner of The Writing Barn (a writer’s retreat outside of Austin, Texas), shares her thoughts on how and why characters change in a novel. Over the course of the novel, determine where the character is starting from, what their...

Bethany Hegedus, author and owner of The Writing Barn (a writer’s retreat outside of Austin, Texas), shares her thoughts on how and why characters change in a novel. Over the course of the novel, determine where the character is starting from, what their...

How often have you heard a writer say--or even said yourself--"I just want to write books--I don't want to have to sell them, too!" Marketing and bookselling are not always natural tasks for authors, but in today's publishing landscape even traditionally...