by Linden Gross | Dec 18, 2025 | Publishing, Sales
A lot of writers don’t really understand how the whole compensation piece works in publishing. A lot of aspiring authors are also convinced they’re going to write a bestseller and make a fortune. Here’s your author profit reality check, along with a few must-know...
by Linden Gross | Sep 4, 2025 | Publishing
Pamela Moulton had finished her first novel and had it professionally line edited. So far, so good. Too many aspiring authors don’t even get to that stage. She knew she needed to self-publish. She just had no idea how to do that. Her editor referred her to me....
by Linden Gross | Jul 3, 2025 | Publishing
A few months ago, I received an email from a writer who had been referred to me by an editor I routinely work with. The writer had finished her novel. She’d had it both line edited and copyedited. Despite this pro move that way too many people want to skip, she had no...
by Linden Gross | Jun 19, 2025 | Marketing
Jeff Hutcheson was closing in on the end of the third novel in his Lost Key cozy mystery series. “I might want to think about doing a little marketing,” he told me. “A discount book promotion followed by Amazon and/or Facebook ads is a great idea!” my...
by Linden Gross | Apr 10, 2025 | Children's Books, Success Stories, Writing
Writer success stories make me happy, especially when they’re huge and hugely unexpected. Meet Jeff Kinney. Jeff wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist. Although the University of Maryland, College Park’s daily newspaper featured a comic strip he’d created,...
