Is writing to reader expectations always necessary? When should you follow the expectations of your readers and when should you follow your heart? Meg Waite Clayton, national bestselling author of "The Wednesday Sisters," shares her thoughts on meeting...

Is writing to reader expectations always necessary? When should you follow the expectations of your readers and when should you follow your heart? Meg Waite Clayton, national bestselling author of "The Wednesday Sisters," shares her thoughts on meeting...

Author Jane Marie describes how she finds time to write while she runs her business and hosts a podcast. In her book, Selling the Dream , Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how...

When you're writing a book, it's easy to make the mistake of writing all your characters to sound like you. Author Bob Martin offers tips for writing dialogue in a novel. He suggests having a strong example in mind, such as an established actor, and...

When you're writing a book, it's easy to make the mistake of writing all your characters to sound like you. Author Bob Martin offers tips for writing dialogue in a novel. He suggests having a strong example in mind, such as an established actor, and...

Eckhart Tolle wrote The Power of Now not because he envisioned selling millions and millions of copies but because he had a sense through his own spiritual connection that this was a book that he needed to write. He had no idea at the time what would...

Bestselling author, Sara Paretsky shares how fears and insecurities can enrich your writing if you let it. There’s so much in our “Maybe everyone who writes mystery…has some degree or other of paranoia,” says Paretsky. “I would love to have Stephen...

Bestselling author, Sara Paretsky shares how fears and insecurities can enrich your writing if you let it. There’s so much in our “Maybe everyone who writes mystery…has some degree or other of paranoia,” says Paretsky. “I would love to have Stephen...

Author, editor, and ghostwriter Kathi Macias first heard of the train-of-thought writing method at a writer’s conference in the ‘80s. In wasn’t until 2005 that she would write the go-to book on the subject, The Train-of-Thought Writing Method . No one...

Steve Schiffman, professional speaker and author of more than sixty books, talks about the challenges of drawing attention to your book and how to overcome those challenges. He says that to be a successful author, you must learn to promote yourself,...