The Art of the Blog-Rant As an indie author, you’re likely handling the bulk of building your author platform yourself. Continue Reading →
The Rules for Writing for Struggling Readers Writing for children and teens may seem easy. Continue Reading →
An Open Letter to Those Coming to J.K. Rowling’s Defense To all who gave revenge 1-star reviews of Lynn Shepherd’s books on Amazon: Please take them down. Continue Reading →
Create the Hook That Sells Your Book “So, what’s your book about?” This is a wonderful question, but it’s also a terrifying one. Continue Reading →
TED Talks That Will Inspire Your Writing If you haven’t unintentionally spent three hours watching TED Talks online, that’s about to change. Continue Reading →
How to Make Your Writing More Authentic The most gut-wrenching criticism that you could receive is that your story or characters do not feel ‘real’ or ‘authentic’. Continue Reading →
3 Tips to a Book Spine that Sells We already know how important your book cover design is, but could the spine be even more important? Continue Reading →
Active vs. Passive: Which Reader is More Likely to Read Your Book? At Wise Ink, we talk a lot about a book’s audience. Continue Reading →
The Two Most Underrated Ways Writers Build Trust Last week we realized that there’s one very important thing that those of us already in the biz (mistakenly) assume writers know, and that is the difference between a “good on paper” book and a good paper (or digital) book. Continue Reading →
