Book Cover Marketing
Seven Ways to Ensure Your Cover Is Worthy of Your Story by Sabine Berlin You’ve been taught your whole life: Don’t judge a book...
Traditional or Self-Publishing?
It All Depends on You! by Kate Willoughby and Angela Eschler You just wrote “The End” on that last page and you’re ready to...
Literary Time Travel
Eight Tips for Doing Historical Research by Annette Lyon I’ve always been a fan of history: discovering people and events from...
Overcoming Your Money Fears
The Secret Writer’s Block No One’s Talking About by Heidi Brockbank Always leave enough time in your life to do something that...
How to Write a Synopsis
By Elana Johnson The word synopsis brings almost any writer to his or her knees. What does the agent or editor want, exactly? A...
Writing Romance in Your Non-Romance
A Dash of Sweet for Your Savory by Amy Maida Wadsworth A just-for-fun look at an example of "just enough" romance in a...
How to Write a Book Proposal
By Kate Willoughby You’ve written your book. You’ve sent it out to dozens of test readers. You’ve revised it what seems like a...
Make Money Before the Book Is Done!
A Jaunt Down the Magazine-Writing Path by Leslie Albrecht Huber I have a confession to make. I never intended to write for...
Pitching to Agents
by Elana Johnson As a pitch and query editor at Eschler Editing, I know that in-person pitching can inspire fear in the most...
Look Rejection in the Eye and Keep on Going
by Sabine Berlin I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. —Emily Bronte, Wuthering...
Editor’s Nightstand: Recipes for Success
“An anesthesiologist has to do only one thing well: Put the patient under without killing him. But she has to know about five...
Two Secrets to Achieving Your Goals
Or, Letting Angst Go So Your Book Can Flow by Angela Eschler & Sabine Berlin Happy 2024! It’s a new year, and that means...