Artist, illustrator, and author, Melanie Greenberg shares how she got started in publishing and offers some tips for others interested in doing the same, including the name of an organization you should absolutely join, a formula for sizing children...

There are several motivational speakers who have turned their talks into books and videos. You see those books and videos for sale at bookstores and you may have even caught a few on the Internet and television. These speakers have turned their self...

Writing competitions are not only a great way to earn money from your writing but also an excellent way of building credibility as a professional writer. Not all writing competitions are created equally so it’s important to investigate a contest thoroughly...

Moses Ose Utomi shares his writing career and how he overcame the fear of sharing his writing with others and receiving negative feedback. In his West African–inspired young adult fantasy sequel to Daughters of Oduma , an elite female fighter and her...

Aligning expectations is the key to a successful co-authoring relationship. Doug Stone and Shelia Heen, co-authors of "Thanks for the Feedback" explain issues to discuss up front, like roles and how each person perceives/handles deadlines, the writing...

Aligning expectations is the key to a successful co-authoring relationship. Doug Stone and Shelia Heen, co-authors of "Thanks for the Feedback" explain issues to discuss up front, like roles and how each person perceives/handles deadlines, the writing...

The query letter is the letter you send to agents to tell them about your project, and it should be no more than a page. Generally, it’s a few paragraphs describing the project and then a paragraph describing you. If it’s a work of fiction, if you’ve...

Which sells, sex or sexy? The short answer is both sell. Some audiences are impatient, others prefer drawing a little tension-building romance and seduction. The act – and the writing of the act – are of course intensely personal. As with any form of...

There is plenty of room for both strong characters and meaningful plot in a romance novel, as romance author Laurie Schnebly Campbell explains. The real star of any romance story, she says, is the growing relationship between the main characters: the...

Research for historical fiction can take many forms. Maybe you spend hours, even days, reading textbooks about the French Revolution. Maybe you stay up all night parsing through firsthand accounts from WWII. When writing The Value of Equality , author...