Words of wisdom about writing often come from unexpected sources. How else you do explain my "Writing Lessons from My Dogs" series? This time, however, the insights weren't related to my pups but rather to a lovely and massive bouquet of sunflowers sent to me by my...
I have to admit that I had no idea of what to do when it came to advertising my book. So, I turned to Incubation Press's promotion expert, @KeriBarnum, for help. Together, we crafted an ad for Busting the Brass Ceiling: How a Heroic Female Cop Changed the Face of...
Why do authors tend to give away their writing? "They've chosen a few pages of my latest book to use in a standardized test that will be given to 70,000 students this spring," one of my most successful writing coach clients emailed me yesterday. "Crazy!!!!" "Any money...
I love fiction. I love working with coaching clients writing their novels. And from easy-breezy beach reads to literary fiction masterpieces, I love reading or listening to a novel, and submerging into the story. Not everyone feels that way. I have a number of friends...
What comes after the first draft and all the steps you’ve taken in the ensuing months? And, even more importantly, how long before you can publish your book? The good news is that before you even receive the physical proof of your book, in fact, even before the copy...
Once you have final copy, your next steps after the first draft involve having the book’s interior pages laid out. Ideally, you will have approved the page design well before this point, so this publishing piece shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks at most,...
If you’ve been following this what-to-do-after-the-first-draft series, you’re now quite aware of just how much work is involved. Let’s assume that you’ve finished writing and rewriting all the drafts of your book and have sent them off to the professionals for editing...
The what-happens-after-the-first-draft saga continues. Once you’ve rewritten your manuscript, so you've shown rather than told, then added detail and honed your language, you could be ready to turn over your manuscript to a professional line editor (unless you want to...
How to revise your first draft doesn’t stop with turning narrative into active passages that allow your reader to experience what’s happening vicariously as discussed in Part 1 of this series. Once you’ve gotten those broad strokes of your revision in hand, including...
You’ve completed the first draft of your book. Congratulations! Time to celebrate before you get back to work. Work? That's right. Even though you may be feeling pressed to get your book out, a whole lot more work is required after the first draft. Here’s a look at...
