How To: Build Your Pitch (or Logline)

Writing your pitch is harder than writing the book but it doesn't have to be. With this basic...

How-To Write a Creative Work Proposal For Your Manuscript

A creative work proposal is a compilation packet of sorts. It serves as the bridge between the writer and publisher. A proposal is a business plan for a creative work that is submitted to a publisher or agent...

How To Choose Between Traditional and Self-Publishing

What kind of writer am I? The point of a writer asking themselves that question is really to help initiate the goal process. As we all know, goal-setting is important in writing. Nothing ever gets written if I don't force myself to make the time to sit down and write. When it came to writing …

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How To Handle Rejection

Writing is hard enough without all the rejection. Here are a few sources and tips on how-to handle...

How To: Build Your Pitch (or Logline)

Writing your pitch is harder than writing the book but it doesn't have to be. With this basic...

Part 1: How-To Write The Story

Welcome to the first post in my new How-To blog series! I'm diving right in ... but be sure to read all the way down for some amazing resources on other sites that might have what you're looking for. Before you start writing, you have to have an idea, right? So let's start with how …

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How-To: Market Your Book

When it comes to book marketing, let's face it: most of it's expensive and rarely results in real sales. There are so many facets to marketing your story, it can be confusing and overwhelming. That's why, as an Indie Author in the never-ending struggle to get your book noticed, it's important to talk to other …

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Trembling Places: a Short Story

*Warning: the following short story contains images of violence and language.* We’d been driving all night, and I needed to pee. I could tell by the look on Jades face that he wasn’t going to pull over. We weren’t in a hurry or anything, he was just in one of those moods where if I …

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Part 5: How-To Structure Your Story

Welcome to part 5 in my How-To blog series! Today we are addressing story structure. It's not as boring as it sounds, I swear! But before we delve, I have to ask you, dear writers: Why are you writing this book? I mean, what are you seeking? What do you hope to get out of writing a …

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Big News!

As some of you may know, I've been pretty 'blogga-non-grata' since I started college last summer. I've been trying to keep up with life and all the promotional stuff that goes with being an Indie author, while keeping up with my homework, writing new books, and still doing all that stuff that daily life demands …

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