Michael Hyatt, New York Times bestselling author and former CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, tells authors about the importance of content and platform when building a plan for success. He talks about the right attitude toward marketing your book (your...

Joel Fotinos, vice president and publisher at Tarcher-Penguin, explains how he became an audio book narrator. He simply asked for more information about an audio book that was going to be produced and he was offered an audition. He explains that the...

Editorial Assistant Michelle Meader shares what her job is at a traditional publisher. She opens with her favorite part of the job--discovering new exciting voices in women's fiction--and then follows that with the more mundane parts of her job. Even...

For new authors, walking the unfamiliar path to publishing can be scary and exhilarating. We asked a few authors what they wish they had known before being published. Learn from them as you continue on your own writing journey. In this interview, you...

A book or e-book is a great way to share your experience and insights, bring more visibility to your cause and establish yourself as a passionate authority. With the expanding universe of independent publishing (a.k.a. self-publishing), the world is...

For new authors, walking the unfamiliar path to publishing can be scary and exhilarating. We asked a few authors what they wish they had known before being published. Learn from them as you continue on your own writing journey. In this interview, you...

Author and writing coach Lakisha Baker developed the program “Book365” because she wanted a community where writers get guidance and advice on how to write and publish a book. For new writers especially, it can be difficult to navigate everything in...

How often have you heard a writer say--or even said yourself--"I just want to write books--I don't want to have to sell them, too!" Marketing and bookselling are not always natural tasks for authors, but in today's publishing landscape even traditionally...

Editor Marysue Rucci gives you the background on the publishing of Fellowship Point by award-winning author Alice Elliott Dark, her first book in twenty years. This is a book about an epic friendship with an ending that, as Marysue says, "will make you...

Patty Blue Hayes, author and life coach, was pushed to revisit her dream to be a writer when her life took an unfortunate and sudden turn. What started as an emotional outpouring in a journal, eventually turned into a book that chronicles her difficult...