I've never much cared for social media. Hanging out on Facebook isn't my idea of fun--it involves a computer or phone screen, so it's work. When it comes to online book promotion, however, it's unavoidable work. So that's how I spent the better part of October....
Book endorsements can help sell books. I know that. I also know that I should have started trying to secure the endorsements for my new book a lot earlier. The problem? I'd pushed to get Busting the Brass Ceiling--the new book I've co-authored, which comes out on...
Feeling frustrated? Indulging in a little (or a lot) of writer self-doubt? To Kill a Mockingbird author Nelle Harper Lee was so disenchanted with her manuscript that she threw it out the window of her New York apartment. Luckily, since those were the days of...
Have you looked into YA novel promotion? You will need to if you want people to read that young adults' novel you have worked so hard to write. So I thought I would share this rambling Zoom conversation I just had with @KeriBarnum, the book promotion expert Incubation...
Memoirs usually aren't the easiest to write. Let's face it. Most people don't decide to write a memoir based on happy, serene experiences. The personal memories that move people to dive into this kind of nonfiction narrative writing are usually difficult ones based on...
If your narrative has started to feel like a dead fish, you clearly need to employ life-saving measures. Showing readers what happens to the people in your story can help turn around even the most critically-ill piece of writing. So can letting them hear it through...
I love Donald Westlake's 5C approach to writing a novel, which I wrote about in last week's blog. This week, I share an article by James Scott Bell in the Writer's Digest about the 5Cs of writing a thriller. The secret lies not in chase or shoot-'em-up scenes, but...
Want to try your hand at fiction but not sure where to start? I love this simple approach to creating a plot, which was originally featured in a 1959 Writer's Digest article by Donald Westlake, an award-winning American writer who penned more than a hundred novels and...
It's always a great day when a client's book that you had a hand in shaping and editing gets a positive review. The fact that my client, Morri Stewart, is also a friend, and that her young adults' fantasy novel Faltofar got a fantastic review, makes this all the...
After just one boosted Facebook post, Busting the Brass Ceiling, the book I co-authored that launches this fall, has already been busting records on the response front. So I figured it was time to unveil the cover, created by Incubation Press book designer Lieve Maas....
