Posted on March 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and mindset advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Base your stories on principles, not systems: Editor Tiffany Yates Martin offers an alternative view of story structure, for writers who find the theory to be constricting: approach the parts as guiding principles for creating an experience (Jane Friedman).
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The failed plot and the novel I gained along the way: Author Rosie Walker tried to overlay her story on the structure of a commercially successful thriller, and while she ended up throwing out the result, the experiment still yielded valuable lessons (Writer's Digest).
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It takes a village to write a novel: Author Martha Conway might not have been in the room with many of those she consulted, but when she bucked the image of a solitary writer and reached out to a wide range of people for help writing an alternative history/historical fiction novel, her work benefited exponentially (Women Writers, Women's Books).
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When a writer does more than one thing: Author Jillian Forsberg used to keep her day job quiet when she was "out" in a writing capacity; here's how and why she stopped hiding the rest of her live (Writer Unboxed).
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