Writing tips When the Muse Shows Up I have noticed over the years that when the Muse finally shows up, I am usually wandering around. Wandering…
Marketing tips What’s a Platform? In my definition, a platform is the combination of the tools, relationships, access, and audience that you have to bear on spreading your creative work – not just once, but…
Writing tips All Writers Are Accountable To Three Things If I had to point to one piece of advice upon which my writing philosophy is built, it would be the fervent words children’s author Jane Yolen uttered at Calvin…
Writing tips The Gift of Great Literature – by Sarah Arthur Many of us, when charting the timeline of our lives, can point to a moment when a story or poem happened. It happened the way an accident or a record-breaking…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips The Sharing of the Crowd Harnessing the sharing of the crowd will often take you further than you think, and it is almost always the best place to start. We have barely begun to explore…
Writing tips Taking One’s Time One of my writing heroes is James Taylor, though our arts are different. He can carry a tune, for one thing. “Sometimes a song will be finished for a deadline…
Writing tips When we are angry When we are angry about the things that make God angry, that is a righteous, not a self-centered, anger. Moses was angry about all of the right things: slavery, injustice,…
Writing tips Our Love of Writing Readerless writing changes us. When writers—and I refer to everyone who writes as a writer, regardless of whether they publish their work—describe writing as therapeutic or spiritual, usually they’ve experienced…
Uncategorized Collaborative Marketing – The Future for Authors by JP Robinson https://www.almostanauthor.com/collaborative-marketing-the-future-for-authors/
Writing tips A Sense of Place A haunting sense of place should ripple off any good memoir once the cover’s closed, and you may reopen the front again as you would a gate to another land.…
Writing tips “Nothing Really Happens Until I Write” Artists have long spoken of “the Muse,” inspiration personified. According to Webster’s, the Muse was “any of the nine sister…
Publishing tips Sample Chapters in a Book Proposal - by Angela Scheff When putting together a nonfiction proposal, it’s important to have sample writing, but not your entire…
Publishing tips Accessing vs. Possessing A reporter for TechCrunch recently observed, “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer,…
Writing tips “Creative” Writing – by Frederick Buechner The following meditation is from a talk on the occasion of the presentation of the Whiting Writers' awards: SOMETIME IN THE early 1950s, for two years running, I taught creative…
Writing tips The Flashback Structure In terms of basic book shape, I’ve used the same approach in all three of mine: I start with a flash forward that shows what’s at stake emotionally for me…
Writing tips Always Writing I am always writing but not always writing a book. Days come when I am hitting in the cage, trying…
Writing tips Follow A Process The healthy creative life follows a process… • What do I know about the process of creativity? • What have I discovered about my personal part in that process? •…
Uncategorized What I Learned From the Publishing in Color Event Thank you Candace Waller for your feedback! http://candacewaller.com/what-i-learned-from-the-publishing-in-color-event/
Marketing tips, Publishing tips Interview with a Book Publicist: Shanon Stowe - by Jana Burson I thought it would be interesting to interview an expert in the field of book publicity. I asked my long-time friend and colleague Shanon Stowe if…
Publishing tips The Universal Book So what happens when all the books in the world become a single liquid fabric of interconnected words and ideas? Four things: First, works on the margins of popularity will…
