This is an update and expansion of an article I wrote for the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) three years ago.
No one wants to think about death, but the reality is it happens to all of us. Many writers
What genre am I? This is a question I hear all the time from new writers and even seasoned writers who aren’t seeing sales in the genre they selected. With what appears to be thousands of selection on Amazon, and
I know that a lot of my posts and emphasis is on helping independent authors who are primarily self-publishing or working with small publishers. However, there are many authors who are hybrid–they self publish and they work with traditional publishers.
This is an updated post from one I wrote on a guest blog six years ago when someone made a comment that anyone not currently raising children couldn’t write children’s books or YA books because they wouldn’t have the right
FOMO is the “fear of losing out”. In the era of social media, advertising, and ease of getting information in front of you, it is easy to FEEL that there is too much you have to do to make it
Recently, someone shared a Substack post titled No One Will Read Your Book (and other truths about publishing) As you can imagine it got a lot of interaction on the discussion board where it was shared. Very successful writers, average