Top tips for authors: March 30, 2023

The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and business advice to offer.

Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:

• 9 proven strategies to increase book sales on Amazon: Whether you're exclusive or wide, you're likely putting your books on the retail giant — so you'll want to hear how Penny Sansevieri suggests boosting your sales (Author Marketing Experts).

• Navigating and seeing beyond writers' roadblocks: Writing coach and author Mary McDonough shares her identify, name, release method for addressing blocks (Writer Unboxed).

• Banish writer's block in 5 minutes flat: You can also try author and writing coach April Dávila's mindfulness technique to get yourself unstuck (Jane Friedman).

• 5 tips on connecting characters from different timelines: Your characters may not occupy the same pages, or even the same years, but author Stephanie Marie Thornton explains how to connect them as well as why you should (Writer's Digest). 

• 4 tips to write about family in fiction: Author Daniel Aleman describes four ways that having a character's family appear in your book can benefit the story overall (Writer's Digest).

• Business musings on AI and mediocre work: Author and publishing expert Kris Rusch's experience relearning Spanish planted some interesting seeds for nuanced thoughts on the use of tech tools like translation websites and, yes, artificial intelligence like ChatGPT (Kristine Kathryn Rusch).

• Handling editorial feedback without getting overwhelmed: Author Tessa Barbosa shares her method for taking in comments from beta readers, critique partners, or professional editors (Writer Unboxed).