Identifying your target reader can often be more challenging for fiction authors because your book's themes and messages might be a little more subtle than a nonfiction book. Book marketing advisor and Author Connections President Beth Kallman Werner...

The final group coaching workshop provided the opportunities to share the first two paragraphs of your manuscript for a critique, discuss any writing challenges, ask general questions, and get advice. This webinar followed the final instructional webinar...

Your ability to reach readers and entice them to purchase your book is the foundation of what is known as your "author platform". Author and editor Troy Lambert believes the key to a good author platform is to find your niche or specialty. Think about...

The Christian publishing space is a unique niche in the book publishing world, per Pete Nikolai, Director of Publishing Services at HarperCollins Christian Publishing. The genre has its own audiences including churches, online programs, television programs...

Author, speaker, and artist Laurie Finkelstein started building her first book’s audience once it was already published. Now, she has learned that this was long after she should have started – she recommends building an audience years before the book...

Lavidge's Managing Director of Interactive Stephen Heitz provides three ways authors can approach setting up a Facebook account. An author can set up a page for an individual book, they can set up an author or brand page that encompasses all of their...

Lavidge's Managing Director of Interactive Stephen Heitz provides three ways authors can approach setting up a Facebook account. An author can set up a page for an individual book, they can set up an author or brand page that encompasses all of their...

Managing the submission process for short fiction can be frustrating, like any writing process that could end in rejections. In the clip below, José Pablo Iriarte, author and educator, discusses his process for writing and circulating his short fiction...

Beginning a story is, for some writers, the hardest part of a manuscript. The difficulty is often a matter of not knowing how to write an exciting enough first line or first page. M. Todd Gallowglas, writer, critic, and educator, explains how to write...

How often do you write? Where and when do you write? Where do your ideas come from? Do you outline? How much do you research? If you think you have to hide away in a cabin for four months to write your novel, or that you have to know the entire story...