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 heave a well-deserved sigh of relief. But just as you’re ready to fill your lungs with the sweet breath of accomplishment, you’re sucker punched...
by Elana Johnson As a pitch and query editor at Eschler Editing, I know that in-person pitching can inspire fear in the most stoic of individuals (even more than writing queries)! If pitching to an agent or editor gives you the heebie-jeebies, take comfort that you’re...
“An anesthesiologist has to do only one thing well: Put the patient under without killing him. But she has to know about five hundred things to do it successfully. It is the same with the writer.” —Larry Brooks, Story Physics A writer only has to do a few things well...
Metadata & Categorizing Kindle Books Guest Post by Heather Moore Once you have your most-excellent manuscript edited, your cover designed, and the interior formatted into a mobi file, you are ready to upload to the Kindle platform on Amazon. And here’s where the...
Tips on the Fiction Platform Guest Post by Heather Moore One year ago, I wouldn’t have been able to write this post. I had been with a traditional publisher for over ten years, with book #12 coming out. I was excited about this new book because it strayed from my...
Avoid a Big Newbie Mistake — Learn What an Editor Should Do Before Your Books Go Public By Angela Eschler and Kat Gille You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you—And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke. —Arthur...
