Urgency is not unique to thrillers and not always a function of a fast pace. Urgency drives all fiction and a slow-moving passage can have you at the edge of your seat. Urgency may sit deep inside the subtext of a scene, manifest in a character’s motivation...

The Write Solutions for Authors You’ve started on your book a dozen times, but you still don’t have a draft you can publish. Your book is half-way completed, but you just can’t conjure up the creative energy to get it across the finish line. You...

People don’t always say what they mean or mean what they say. That’s true in real life and in fiction. Dialogue is not only about what is being said, but also about what is left unsaid. That is the playing field of narration: it shows us how people interact...

The demand by Hollywood for interesting ideas and stories has never been greater, and they love to find that content in books. Yet many times authors don’t incorporate some basic things that make Hollywood want to option a book and develop it for the...

Setting those writing goals for the new year can be daunting if you don’t know how to set yourself up for success. Many writers today still maintain a full time job, so finding time to write can be a challenge at best. It is possible to maintain a healthy...

You’ve done the hard work of writing. Now it’s time to market your title to potential readers. For many authors, marketing is a mystery and creates some unique challenges. Unlock that mystery by joining us for this recorded session where ALC President...

Up until a few years ago, reprint rights were the big dog on the block. Your publisher would acquire the rights to your book and produce it in hard cover. That was the way things were done for the most part. Any other form of the book was something they...

You know how to set up your Instagram profile, so now go more in-depth into the art of using Instagram and how to cross post on other social media platforms and utilize as many functions as you can. Learn the importance of each, how to use them for your...

Confused about how to do book marketing? Keith Ogorek, President of the Author Learning Center, provides a simple way to build a marketing plan that will take some of the mystery out of the process. Any good, integrated marketing campaign has four...

You just put the last period on the first draft of your manuscript. Now what? Resist the urge to go back to page 1 to start editing. You’ll get lost in details. Instead, edit with a plan that will guide you from fixing big picture issues like structure...