Top tips for authors: 2024's greatest hits

The publishing blogs we follow have, of course, looked back at the advice they dispensed over the past year.

Here is what they decided writers shouldn't forget about when 2025 arrives.

Alliance of Independent Authors

• Self-publishing marketing and promotion advice 

• Self-publishing business and planning advice 

• Artificial intelligence blog roundup

• Top 10 inspirational indie authors podcast episodes

Writer's Digest 

• One piece of advice from seven horror authors 

• One piece of advice from fifteen YA fiction authors 

• One piece of advice from seven short story authors 

• One piece of advice from twenty-seven middle grade and picture authors 

• One piece of advice from twenty-eight sci-fi and fantasy authors 

• One piece of advice from twenty-nine historical fiction authors

• One piece of advice from fifty-four mystery and thriller authors 

• One piece of advice from twenty-seven literary fiction authors 

Other sources 

• K.M. Weiland's top ten writing posts (Helping Writers Become Authors) 

• The year in review — the best advice for writers (Writer Unboxed)

• Review of my 2024 creative and business goals (The Creative Penn)