Building a strong, effective author brand will help you and your book stand out among the crowd. To create an authentic author brand, author and book PR/marketing expert A.G. Billig suggests first asking yourself: What are your values? What is the theme...

Understanding the "why" behind your book is just as important as the content itself. Are you wanting to entertain, inform, inspire? The reasons behind writing a book are often a part of a larger purpose or mission that become an author's platform....

Understanding the "why" behind your book is just as important as the content itself. Are you wanting to entertain, inform, inspire? The reasons behind writing a book are often a part of a larger purpose or mission that become an author's platform....

Meet Jessamine Chan, author of the “Read With Jenna” Today Show Book Club Pick The School for Good Mothers , now available now in bookstores! For fans of The Handmaid's Tale, Never Let Me Go , and Octavia Butler comes a taut and explosive debut novel...

Racquel Henry, writer and editor, hadn’t planned to go into ghostwriting. The opportunity, however, fell into her lap. She actually connected with a unique network of ghostwriters on Craigslist. She enjoys this type of writing because every ghostwriting...

A collaborative partnership is the key to a successful relationship between writer and editor, as freelance copyeditor and current managing editor for The Saturday Evening Post Andy Hollandbeck explains. When adversarial, this relationship will be...

A collaborative partnership is the key to a successful relationship between writer and editor, as freelance copyeditor and current managing editor for The Saturday Evening Post Andy Hollandbeck explains. When adversarial, this relationship will be...

Becoming a screenwriter for television animation is a dream job for many authors. But there's a lot of competition and a high demand for perfection in the industry, which makes the show's editor highly selective in who they deem worthy of writing a script...

Becoming a screenwriter for television animation is a dream job for many authors. But there's a lot of competition and a high demand for perfection in the industry, which makes the show's editor highly selective in who they deem worthy of writing a script...

Yellow Wife is based on the true story of Robert Lumpkin, a notorious jailer who owned a holding pen and “breaking” center for more than 300,000 enslaved people from 1844 – 1865. Lumpkin was so well known for his cruelty that the jail was known as the...