What Next? 15 Questions to Help you Decide Your Next Writing Project

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I was lucky enough to get an Advanced Reader Copy of Chip and Dan Heath's new book, DECISIVE: How to Continue Reading

Health Care for Writers

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If you are self-employed, you are worried about health care. I know: I had surgery in July and it Continue Reading

Author Bios: Concise, Relevant and Fascinating

Just as you need a bio ready for multiple purposes, you should have author photos ready. I try to have a photo in 100x100 pixels, 250x250, 500x500 and at least one with a 300 dpi (high resolution) for print situations.

When you write an author bio, what you include depends on, well, you. Bio for Query Writing a Continue Reading

Writers Must Be Readers

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What comes out depends on what goes in. Garbage in, garbage out. Literature in, literature Continue Reading

Advice to a Beginner

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Writing for Kids? It's easy, right? Recently, I've talked to several beginners and here's some of Continue Reading

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Replace Abstractions with Concrete Detail! Guest post by Geoff Herbach Introduced first in Continue Reading

Social Media for Authors: Start Slow

In Social Media: the turtle wins.

In a recent post about Facebook Author Pages, Nathan Bradford said: When fan pages were first Continue Reading

The New Facebook Page for Authors

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Today, everyone should be rolled over to Facebook's new Page features. Why should authors care? Continue Reading

Snow Days: 3 Tips for Unexpected Days Off

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Arkansas was blanketed with snow yesterday, up to 2 feet in NW-Arkansas, and about 6" (officially) Continue Reading

Author as Publisher?

Richard Curtis in a recent EReads post asks a provocative question: Do authors make good publishers? Continue Reading