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Your Book Blueprint: Creating and Using a Book Proposal to Achieve Your Publishing Goals

Pete Nikolai

Are you ready to turn your book dreams into reality? Writing a manuscript is a monumental achievement, but navigating the publishing world requires a specific set of tools. Join us for an empowering webinar on how to create and use a book proposal document...
- 5 months ago
- Traditional Publishing
- Book Proposals
Back Cover Text - article

Author Learning Center

While you've spent considerable amounts of time writing, rewriting and editing passages in your manuscript, the first words a reader will likely read are on your book's cover. The About the Book and About the Author are usually the last step in a long...
- over 9 years ago
- Design
- Cover
Online Tools: All About Blogging - podcast

Linda Lee

Web expert Linda Lee discusses blogging and how to leverage the power of today's tools to build a presence online. Lee has seen the arc of the blog, and gives a bit of history in order to explain where we are now with CMS. She also talks about what...
- over 9 years ago
- Blogging
- Platforms
Online Tools: All About Blogging - video

Linda Lee

Web expert Linda Lee discusses blogging and how to leverage the power of today's tools to build a presence online. Lee has seen the arc of the blog, and gives a bit of history in order to explain where we are now with CMS. She also talks about what...
- over 9 years ago
- Blogging
- Platforms
Tips for Getting Started as a Blogger and Choosing a Platform

Erik Deckers

So you’ve decided to publish a blog! Now what? What platform should you use? What should you put in it? How often should you write? Part of creating an online presence is trial and error, but there are many veteran authors that have proven what can...
- over 7 years ago
- Blogging
- Platforms
I have received several calls about converting my book to a movie, people claiming to have reviewed it and with connections to producers can advance it to film – for a fee of several thousand dollars. Are all of these a scam?

Author Learning Center

Question: I have received several calls about converting my book to a movie, people claiming to have reviewed it and with connections to producers can advance it to film – for a fee of several thousand dollars. Are all of these a scam? Answer: Unfortunately...
- over 5 years ago
- Author Learning Center
- Ask Keith
What is the best introduction for the next book when continuing the story from your first book?

Author Learning Center

Question: What is the best introduction for the next book when continuing the story from your first book? Answer: It sounds like you are writing a sequel. By definition, a sequel is a publication that continues the story or develops the theme of...
- over 4 years ago
- Author Learning Center
- Ask Keith
Vacuum in the Dark and Pretend I'm Dead author Jen Beagin on How She Began to Write Fiction

Jen Beagin

"Before I was a writer, I was a cleaning lady in New Mexico." Jen Beagin holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, and is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award in fiction. She is the author of Pretend I'm Dead and Vacuum...
- over 7 years ago
- Fiction
- Reason for Writing
A Good Story Begins with, "What If?" - video

Bob Martin

Author Bob Martin explains how he starts a story using "What If" as a catalyst for creativity. Writers just starting out have always asked established authors "where do you get your ideas?" Martin's place to find ideas is within, and he tells us how...
- over 9 years ago
- Managing Your Writing Life
- Writing Exercises