Got Apps? Five Apps Authors Should Add to Their Toolkit Ease on Down the Aisle—The App Store Aisle! Continue Reading →
Walk the Walk, Blog the Blog: 6 Types of Blog Posts for the Indie Author One of the biggest contradictions I encounter (all too often, unfortunately) when working with writers is their fear and reluctance to do a blog. Continue Reading →
Do I Have to Kill My Darlings? 5 Self-editing Steps You MUST Take Before an Editor or Agent Congratulations, writer! You’ve done it. Continue Reading →
45 Quick Word Replacements for Good, Great, Awesome and Other Boring Superlatives Great, excellent, amazing, awesome (our personal favorite); these are just a few stale superlatives stymying your writing. Continue Reading →
Keep Your Book Fresh: 25 Clichés to Avoid in Your Writing Everyone—writers, scuba divers, and presidents alike—have “key” phrases that they tend to use and use again. Continue Reading →
7 Book Writing Tricks that Work for Blogs It’d be nice if blogs could write themselves while you focused on writing your next book, but it doesn’t quite work that way…yet. Continue Reading →
The 10 Wordiest Expressions You Should Strike From Your Writing…Now! After reading William’s Zinsser’s On Writing Well it became clear that I had a problem. Continue Reading →
5 Things Indie Authors Should Know About Smashwords I’m sure you’ve read the astounding number of articles on Amazon’s plot to destroy the book retailer market and if you haven’t, I suggest you read this post from Joe Konrath, which sums it up beautifully. Continue Reading →
The First Line: 4 Tips to Writing an Opener that Keeps Readers Reading! The first line of your book is unquestionably the most important one you will write. Continue Reading →
