Today’s Friday Feature author interview is with Gloria Doty. Gloria has just returned from the Write-to-Publish writers’ conference in Wheaton, Illinois, where the conference organizers awarded her the 2014 Writer of the Year Award for her book Not Different Enough. (I highly recommend the Write-To-Publish conference; they have been helping writers on the road to…
Customized products for marketing businesses have been around for a long time. The problem was you had to bulk order. I don’t have the budget for that. Do you? Maybe you don’t even think of yourself as a business, but as an author you are in the business of selling your books. Unless one book…
When you open MS Word, you probably just start typing without giving much thought to the settings of that document. But those settings may not be the ideal for a novel manuscript. For example, all manuscripts should be double spaced, but Word’s default document is single spaced. Therefore learning about styles and templates will allow
All the gurus say it: “Include a quality image with your blog post.” And with the rapidly growing popularity of Pinterest, many authors have created a Pinterest business account. They pin attention grabbing, irresistible graphics that drive traffic to their blogs, market their books, and build their platform. I agree, but I am neither artistic nor versed in…
Our Friday Feature author interview today is with Cynthia T. Toney. Her book, Bird Face, released February 2014 and is garnering nothing but 4- and 5-star reviews on Amazon. Let’s dive in. Debra: How did you choose the publishers you queried for your book? Cynthia: I looked for publishers that didn’t always follow trends in…
Should I write my novel in first person or third (or get totally wild and use second person)? Am I limited to a single character, or can I use multiple point of view (POV) characters? Who should my novel’s POV character be? You want to write a story readers can’t put down, but how do…
In the words of author RJ Thesman, finding a literary agent is “harder than finding the perfect purse.” Be that as it may, many authors seek an agent and for good reason. Agents
You want to sell your manuscript, right? But the time and energy required for your publisher search can be exhausting. And you’d really rather spend that time and energy toward your next writing project. What’s even more frustrating is