Ever thought of public speaking as part of your author platform? Publicist Marika Flatt explains what role media outreach and speaking engagements can play in your PR campaign. Publicists are focused on garnering media attention around the speaking...

Keeping motivated as a writer can be incredibly difficult. This is in part because the work is hard and in part because rejection is hard. In the clip below, literary agent Nicholas Croce talks about how to deal with rejection. Agents pass on bestselling...

Rejection is the daily fare of artistic success, and the writers who learn to deal with it in stride are the ones who separate themselves from the pack. Based on his decades of coaching and managing writers in all genres and on his bestselling book...

Author, Laura Labovich, discusses the importance of communicating clearly when speaking about your book to spread your message. For many writers, pitching something that they’ve spent months or even years working on is a daunting task. How do you speak...

Ever thought of public speaking as part of your author platform? Publicist Marika Flatt explains what role media outreach and speaking engagements can play in your PR campaign. Publicists are focused on garnering media attention around the speaking...

What's the difference between content editing and copy editing? Freelance editor Marcela Landres defines content, or developmental editing. It goes beyond traditional understandings of editing, such as grammar and punctuation. Listen to this clip as...

Mystery author Serita Stevens breaks down the essential elements of a great mystery novel. If you think of a book like “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie, you see that a great mystery is made not because of how a murder was committed, but...

Bill Gladstone, agent at Waterside Productions, offers motivation for aspiring authors. He shares his perspective on how positive thoughts and pure motivations can bring goodness into your life, including your publishing efforts. The Law of Attraction...

Marika Flatt, public relations expert at PR by the Book, offers some perspective on how a publicist can help authors. In the last few decades, the online work that publicists do has obviously changed in previously unimaginable ways. Online media...

Tarcher Perigee Marketing Coordinator Jillian McElgunn provides social media marketing tips for authors and how to best utilize your time online. She provides three helpful book marketing tips. First, give back to your followers and organizations that...