S is for Seeing. People are always trying to define what diversity in fiction means. Well, I read an article by Rain Sivertsen on her blog Writing Up My Serotonin and realised for the first time what diversity in fiction should mean. Here’s Rain’s guest post. “Can you remember the first time you ever recognized yourself in a book?” …
Q is for Query Writers know how difficult it is to write a good query letter. Opinions and advice differs from source-to-source. So I decided to go and ask someone who actually works with query letters (and the slush pile) from day-to-day to tell us how it really works. Go ahead, Hoda. Hello! I was …
P is for Publishing. I decided to continue with my quest to find out everything about publishing (as shown in most of my A-Z posts this month). To help with that, I invited Iola to share more knowledge. (This is a post for the Author Toolbox Blog Hop. To find out more, click here or see A.) This …
L is for Life. The mysterious life of a writer is something everyone wonders about. Is it really like on TV? Author Anne R. Allen is here to answer that today. Oh, the glamorous life of an author! Meeting with the intellectual and artistic elite in the cafés of Paris, dining with the rich and …
J is for “Joining”. We all need some encouragement from time-to-time. To support my claim, I’ve invited over Alex J. Cavanaugh — founder and leader of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group — to explain why writing groups are good for you. Writing is a solitary endeavor. We can bounce ideas off others and write with …
Sometimes it’s difficult to find the balance between our fiction and reality. To help with that, I invited writing friend Chrys Fey to share some tips on having a life while still being able to write. Does writing take up a lot of your time, leaving you without a life? And yet, you’re not getting …
E is for Editing. Writers know that their work needs editing. But how much? And when to stop? To answer these questions, M.L. Keller from The Manuscript Shredder shares her insights. Editing loop: How to identify it, how to get out, and when to let a project go Feel like you are stuck in an editing loop? …
B is for Branding. We all know that if we want to make it as authors, we need a brand. But it’s very confusing. So, I invited over Rachel Thompson from Bad Redhead Media to explain things for us. Awhile back, I wrote an article, Branding 101, which detailed the basics for writers what branding …
