Have you been approached about turning your novel into a movie? Solicited by a literary agent? Had your Facebook page duplicated? Scammers disguising themselves as reputable firms and people, taking…
The Writers & Publishers Network (WPN), a national literary nonprofit, is merging the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC) and the Publishers Association of Los Angeles (PALA) into its organization.…
by Sandra Beckwith January 31, 2024 Reprinted with permission It’s easy to see why so many authors suffer from book marketing overwhelm. There’s so much to do! Here’s how to…
by Lisa Tener, Reprinted with permission In my most recent post, I answered a soon-to-be-published author’s questions about distribution for a traditionally published book; today, I answer their second question:…
By Zibby Owens, Reprinted with permission It’s 11:00 p.m. and I’m still sitting on my son’s bed after I put him to bed. I’m in the dark, the only sound…
By Kathleen Kaiser One of the biggest mistakes I’ve found when working with self-published authors is that they don’t have the original high-resolution PDF for their book’s interior or the…
by Korina Moss After finishing my first cozy mystery manuscript I attended a library event with three established cozy authors. When they opened up for questions from the audience, I…
by Mark Parsons Click here if you missed Part III. There is the theory of and the planning of, but sooner or later you face the doing of. A typical…
by Eric Hauch This was the year that artificial intelligence went tete-a-tete with human writers. While AI has been around for years, the introduction of ChatGPT introduced an automated process…
by Mark Parsons Click here if you missed Part II. “If you build it, they will come” doesn’t apply to in-store events. It’s more like “If you build it—and tell…
