Writing tips When Beginning a New Book When it is time to begin a book, when the blank pages are waiting and the fountain pens have been…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips Impossibilities? Wikipedia has taught me to believe in the impossible more often. In the past several decades I’ve had to accept other ideas that I formerly thought were impossibilities but that…
Writing tips Why Memoirs Fail Most memoirs fail because of voice. It’s not distinct enough to sound alive and compelling. Or there are staunch limits to emotional tone, so it emits a single register. Being…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips Positioning, Packaging, and the Pitch Today, in order to even have a chance at people’s attention, your project has to seem as good as or better than all the others. Three critical variables determine whether…
Writing tips Rewrite Time When the rewrite time comes, you put your gamer on. You jam the gamer down on your head and set…
Publishing tips What is the Single Best Way to Develop a Relationship with Your Publisher? - by Jana Burson ONE WORD: COMMUNICATION Just like in any relationship, be it friendship, business, marriage, etc.,…
Writing tips Your Creative Calling When you respond to your creative calling, you are doing something that is necessary for the world. It may be necessary in big ways-say a series of newspaper articles that…
Publishing tips If Something is Not Interactive, it is Broken All devices need to interact. If a thing does not interact it will be considered broken. Over the past few years I’ve been collecting stories of what it is like…
Writing tips Using Fiction to Explore Spiritual Reality by Steve McCutchan www.smccutchan.com THE BIG PICTURE Have you ever hit your thumb with a hammer? If so, you experienced a critical factor that contributes to many of the…
