Posted on March 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of advice to offer, spanning a variety of topics.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Six serious tips for writing a comic novel: Author A. Natasha Joukovsky shares her best practices on adding humor to fiction (Writer's Digest).
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Writing a trilogy with the end in mind: Co-authors Colleen Coble and Rick Acker offer the lessons they learned over the course of writing a trilogy together (Writer's Digest).
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Reading as an agent: Donald Maass describes the three areas that, whether he's reading as an agent, a teacher, or a regular reader, he finds himself looking at in every single book he picks up (Writer Unboxed).
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I hired a book publicity firm; here's what went wrong: Author Kirsten Bell realizes, in hindsight, that she wanted to outsource not just marketing, but also thinking about marketing — an urge that was ultimately quite costly to her (Jane Friedman).
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Metadata — the digital DNA of your book: ALLi's Anna Featherstone interviews Abbey Clark of NielsenIQ BookData Australia about what book metadata is, why it matters, and what it does for your book within the publishing world (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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