Relationship Building the Key to Successful Marketing
by Diana Hurwitz Key points: Start early Find your tribe Engagement is key Give more than receive You’ve worked on your magnum opus for months, years, maybe a decade. You’ve…
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Editor’s Choice June 2024 News You Might Have Missed
Romance Writers of America files for bankruptcy amid bitter racism battle Group says membership crisis means it cannot pay conference contracts as top writer condemns RWA’s ‘retreat from commitment to…
First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder
Sandra Murphy’s short story, “Straight to the Heart,” appears in the latest anthology from White City Press, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder edited by Teresa Inge and Heather Weidner.…
Book and eBook Lengths are Changing
by Dave Chesson, Your Book Trend Watchdog, and Kindlepreneur founder At Kindlepreneur, we’ve dug into Amazon trends and found something you’ll want to check out. I was surprised when my…
How To Write for the Christian Market
by W. Terry Whalin When I studied journalism at top-rated Indiana University, my colleagues thought my career change was “different.” Instead of becoming a reporter at the Chicago Tribune or…
Understanding and Utilizing Conflict to Create Engaging Works
by Debra H. Goldstein Writers are told conflict is essential to stories or novels. That conflict is the catalyst compelling movement of the plot or in the characters’ lives by…
Reviews matter, and then they don’t.
by Gabriel Valjan, first published on Criminal Minds blog, reprinted with permission. Question: I found out Publishers Weekly let go of some its reviewers and is reviewing fewer mysteries. PW is…
The Publishing Game May 2024
by Jay Hartman Over the weekend of April 20 and 21 I had the opportunity to attend the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. It was my first official public…
About Expletives
by Bobbie Christmas For some reason I’m seeing more expletives than ever in the manuscripts I edit, so rather than a Q & A today, I’m going to address expletives…
Editor’s Choice May 2024
Why authors should put their fictional characters on social media and how to do it by Sandra Beckwith. For fun and reader engagement, perfect for those writers who are shy…