You can dread public speaking, but you also can do it!

Posted on 09/11/2018 at 09:20 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Betsy Graziani Fasbinder has an incredibly elegant solution for how to start overcoming your fear of public speaking. Th...

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Tagged As: Jane Friedman, The business of writing

When and how to push more traffic to your website

Posted on 09/10/2018 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Jane Friedman has good news for writers worrying about growing their website traffic. If you build it — “it&...

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How to launch your author Instagram account

Posted on 09/06/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You may have heard that Instagram is the new Facebook, but if you didn’t quite believe it, ask author Annie Sulliv...

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How to perfect the how-to book

Posted on 09/02/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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How many times have you been confounded by a task — or undertaken a new one — and thought “I’ll...

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Protect your nonfiction from the curse of knowledge

Posted on 08/18/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Nonfiction writers have a delicate balance to strike. Anne Janzer, a professional writer who has worked with over a hund...

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Place: Another character in your work

Posted on 08/08/2018 at 01:02 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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One member of Jane Friedman’s writing group asks so consistently about the settings in others’ works that it...

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What it's like to self-publish a children's book

Posted on 08/05/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Writing a children’s book is different than writing an adult book, so it stands to reason that self-publishing wou...

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Tagged As: Children's literature, Jane Friedman, The business of writing

How to self-publish your backlist

Posted on 08/03/2018 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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After years of being traditionally published, author Jess Lourey was ready to make the switch to self-publishing. She re...

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13 common self-publishing mistakes that you can avoid

Posted on 08/02/2018 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Kirkus Reviews’s Lauren Bailey says there’s an upside to how steep the learning curve can be for self-publis...

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Make your subplots strong and supportive

Posted on 07/26/2018 at 02:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Writer Diana Kimpton wants your subplots to help carry the main story forward, not serve as a distraction or filler mate...

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