Posted on April 14, 2026 at 12:00 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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What not to do when paying for exposure: Author Kirsten Bell again shares the lessons she learned the hard and expensive way, through a disappointing partnership with a bookstagrammer (Jane Friedman).
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How to sell more books: Penny Sansevieri is here with ten proven tips on what authors should do, in order to increase their sales (Author Marketing Experts).
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How does fear play into character arc?: In the second installment of this series, Becca Puglisi illustrates how your character's past influences their present-day outer motivation, inner motivation, outer conflict, and inner conflict (Writers Helping Writers).
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Creating a great cast of suspects for your mystery: Author C. S. Harris offers eight tips for ensuring your reader and your on-page sleuth have interesting and plausible people to suspect of committing the main crime (Writer's Digest).
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