Charu Suri details how she became a travel writer and offers tips for building a writing portfolio to become a serious travel writer. She recommends starting small, writing for free, and pitching small online and print publications. From there, she...

Everyone wants to travel, so travel writing should be an easy market, right? Finding your audience is the key to success in travel writing. Patricia Serrano, travel blogger at www.FreshTraveler.com, discusses how to find your travel writing niche within...

Author Kaitlin Solimine hopes that everything she learned writing her award-winning, critically acclaimed debut historical fiction novel Empire of Glass makes the process of writing her second book more efficient. Her first book's structure, voice, and...

If you’re editing your manuscript for the first time, there are probably at least a few editing terms you’re not completely familiar with. We’ve assembled a glossary of common terms with brief definitions to help you navigate your way through this...

Bestselling fiction author Jo Furniss started out in journalism, first as a staff journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), then as a freelance journalist. For almost 20 years, she focused solely on nonfiction writing. Life took her...

For many authors, their first completed manuscript isn't always the one that gets the first book deal. This was the case for middle-grade author Laura Martin. Her critically acclaimed Edge of Extinction book series was her second book project but was...

Freeman Ng's Favorite Writing Location Bridge Across the Sky is a raw and honest historical novel in verse about a Chinese teen who immigrates to the United States with his family and endures mistreatment at the Angel Island Immigration Station while...

You’ve written a book, and you may be wondering what to do next. The answer: you must start marketing. This is how potential readers find out about your book, get excited, and ultimately make the decision to buy and read it. Marketing helps your book...

About to release the fifteenth book in her popular Bad Hair Day Mystery series, author Nancy J. Cohen knows a thing or two about how to write a successful book series. The two key ingredients, she says, are a likeable main character and a fresh plot...