A series of professional updates involving Bruce Boxleitner (really!), Lindsey Fairleigh (yay!), and a well deserved long weekend.
As the author, you’re very close to your work, and you’re even closer to your own writing style. A second set of eyes can make all the difference in ferreting out quirks and mannerisms that can interrupt the flow of the manuscript.
Good back cover copy is absolutely essential to book sales—even in today’s online marketplace, where only a small percentage of books are in a position to be physically picked up and paged through before purchase. Here are five steps to kicking ass with your back cover copy.
Whether it’s three words or three hundred, if your words are important enough for other people’s eyes (or ears), they’re important enough to be checked over to make sure you’re saying what you think you’re saying.
Here are three notable places words can hide that don’t always receive the care they deserve—and how the most innocent of oversights can lead to unexpected consequences.
The question used to be: publish independently, or pursue traditional publishing?—but that question is so last year. In 2013, the new question is: work with a self-publishing company, or choose your own adventure?