Knowing your target audience early on in the writing and publishing process is essential for fine-tuning your author platform and marketing efforts, as marketing and communications consultant Nicole Baker explains. The first thing writers must accept...

Per author Neil V. Young, there is a common trap that many writers fall into. They spend years working on a writing project but never have it properly critiqued or reviewed by their peers or editing professionals. Their piece is riddled with mistakes...

Inspired by the saying in Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five , the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library's yearly literary journal So It Goes released its fifth issue in 2017. The project was initially started when the foundation received some last minute...

It sounds counterintuitive, but offering discounts on your eBooks on Amazon, or even offering them for free, can increase an author's overall revenue. How? By promoting these discounts through eBook promotional sites such as BookBub, BookGorilla, and...

Inspired by the saying in Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five , the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library's yearly literary journal So It Goes released its fifth issue in 2017. The project was initially started when the foundation received some last minute...

The majority of Bart Tesoriero's nonfiction Christian work is for a Catholic audience, so he refers primarily to the website for the Vatican to start his research for a book project. He also refers to the writings of the Doctors of the Church, along...

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of getting your web presence to rank on the first page in Google searches, and to do so organically, not through paid advertising. As an author, it's important that readers can easily find your social...

Author and publishing consultant Patricia L. Brooks knows that nothing will ever replace word of mouth marketing. The format on which it thrives may continue to become more digital, but authors shouldn't underestimate the power of word of mouth. In...

Many new writers worry that what they have to say has already been said and they wonder if their voice is unique enough to get noticed. Author Elizabeth Knox believes that all writers do have a unique way of seeing or saying things that will resonate...

Memoir can be an intimidating genre for writers due to the very personal nature of the content. Memoir author, writers group founder, and publishing consultant Patricia L. Brooks offers a workshop aptly named "Write the Memoir You Are Afraid to Write...