Paint a subtle but skillful portrait of your characters

Posted on 01/20/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Readers want to know all about your characters (or at least they should), but the best way to bring them to life isn&rsq...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writing advice

Grammar Girl takes on "myriad" versus "a myriad of"

Posted on 01/18/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

One way to fire up grammar geeks is to ask whether “myriad” or “a myriad of” is correct. The sav...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Grammar Girl

You've recorded an audiobook. Now what?

Posted on 01/18/2019 at 11:14 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Anyone who follows the publishing industry is well aware of how audio is taking off. So Joanna Penn has hosted Tina Diet...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Audiobook, Joanna Penn, Marketing

How many executors does your estate have?

Posted on 01/17/2019 at 02:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Indie author Maggie Lynch is a planning superstar. Not only does she have an executor for her personal estate, but she h...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: The business of writing

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Protect those audio rights

Posted on 01/17/2019 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s planning-for-2019 series continues, with the latest installation discussing audio. W...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Audiobook, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Your writing matters, even if it's not making money

Posted on 01/19/2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

We absolutely hope you’re making money off your writing, if that’s your goal. That said, author Ali Luke wan...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Motivational, The business of writing

Don't let your author website be a cautionary tale

Posted on 01/16/2019 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You’ve undoubtedly run into a website, at some point, that makes you groan in frustration and wonder who the heck...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Marketing, Social media and websites

How to overcome fear while writing a memoir

Posted on 01/16/2019 at 09:36 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Publishing anything means putting yourself out into the world for scrutiny. But when it’s a memoir, not fiction or...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Memoir, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Your story doesn't have to start at the beginning

Posted on 01/15/2019 at 02:53 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

In medias res — or starting in the middle — is neither a new nor unfamiliar writing technique. That said, th...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Think of ghostwriting as free training

Posted on 01/15/2019 at 10:48 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Dave Chesson has a hilarious take on ghostwriting: that it’s essentially free training or, better yet, compensated...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur)