by Caitlin Muir | Dec 31, 2015 | Blogging Tips, How To, Platform Building Tips, Productivity, Writing Tips
This year could be your year. The year that you finish that manuscript, get your agent, and land the coveted book contract. You have visions of movie options, book tours, and making money off your blog dancing in your head. All by the end of 2016. What a great New...
by Thomas Umstattd | Mar 16, 2015 | Writing Tips
WordPress started off as a hobby by a teenager living in Texas. From those small beginnings, it become the number one website platform in the world. Understanding how and why WordPress took over the Internet could be the secret to turning your next book into a...
by Thomas Umstattd | Nov 17, 2014 | Writing Tips
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | Spotify | RSS | MoreMany authors are terrified that readers will steal their work. They don’t realize their true enemy is obscurity, not piracy. If...
by Chad Allen | Oct 28, 2013 | Platform Building Tips, Writing Tips
If you’re a writer, it’s fair to assume you’d like to write a bestseller. In my 12-plus years of experience as an editor for a major publisher, bestseller status is the Holy Grail of the writing trade, and it’s not just an ego thing. Hitting the bestseller lists is an...
by Caitlin Muir | Jun 13, 2013 | Platform Building Tips, Website Tips, Writing Tips
Stop thinking of yourself as a starving artist. Your book is your business. Writing is funny. It’s one of the only professions where it can be frowned upon to be professional. Society approaches writers as mythical creatures who haunt coffee shops and are...
