In the last post, Why Do You Write, I introduced the idea of three categories for why we write; Art, Community, and Business. Today I’m going to show you how to use these categories to shape the path through your writing journey with a brief introduction to each category. I’ll elaborate […]
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Welcome back to 101 Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Wrote My First Book! Today is post #80, isn’t that exciting! Only 21 more posts to go. As you probably know if you’ve been following my blog, I took a little break from 101 TIWIK to bring you Dreadless, […]
This is it. You’ve written your book, dragged it through countless revisions, edited it a million times, formatted the text into a slick interior design, and put an amazing cover on it. And now, today, your proof copy has arrived in the mail and you are holding the book in your […]
Judging a book by its cover has a bad rap, but how else is a potential reader supposed to judge it? In a glance, a good cover can tell you everything you need to know about a book. Genre, author, whether it’s part of a series, what the book is […]
The author bio is possibly the most important bit of back matter you can include in your book, which is why I’m devoting an entire post to it here. It can also be the most difficult thing you’ll ever write–which is why it’s useful to boil it down to the […]
The final phase of formatting your book and turning your manuscript into a novel will involve a great many questions. How should you title your chapters? Should you title your chapters? Should your chapters be individual scenes, or a collection of several scenes? What about putting a quote or something […]