By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin “As an acquisitions editor, you should not be blogging,” one of my long-term writer friends told me in 2008. I worked inside a well-known publisher and she believed a blog was a complete waste of my time.  I was an early adapter to the blogging trend. …

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 A new year means fifty-two new blog posts to plan. Fifty-two! Or less if you blog every other week. Regardless, that is a lot of posts. The excitement of a new year brings joy, especially with the hopes of a vaccine in this pandemic. But how…

by Lindsey Brackett @LindsBrac You’ve done it! You wrote a book. You found an agent and house. You independently published. Either way, you have a book you can hold in your hands or scroll on your phone and now the question is—how do you find readers?  Enter reader groups! One…

By Larry Leech @LarryJLeechII Done. Finished.  The end of another year—an insanely, crazy, pull-out-your-hair year. Good-bye 2020.  Mic drop. That might be how many people feel about this year. But that is certainly not how a reader should feel when they reach the end of one of your chapters. Our…

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. 12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of…

By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Endings can be a tricky business. It’s tough to do well. Here are a few things you want to keep in mind as you’re wrapping your book up. First Know where you’re going. Even if you don’t have an outline, have a plan in mind. It…