Authorship category: 1257 books

So you want to write a book . . . but you can't quite seem to get started. Or finished. Writing veteran Angela Hunt details areas and concepts you should consider before, during, and after the writing. This lesson discusses the work a writer should do away from his or her manuscript—conceptualizing,...

Are you frustrated with getting rejections for your short stories or novels but have no idea what you’re doing wrong? You could be guilty of committing one of the seven deadly sins of fiction. This book will show you how to Write top notch dialogue Create characters...

REVISED APRIL 2018: Who do you go to for answers to your most pressing writing and publishing questions? It’s an exciting time to dive into publishing. But writing can still be a confusing and even a lonely job. What if you had an experienced published author friend that you could call on at a moment’s...

ACX is the most popular platform for self-publishing audiobooks. And while it has great resources for anyone who wants to use the site, putting your first book out in audio can be daunting. How do you pick a good narrator? How much should you pay? Should you do royalty share or pay for production?...

[Courtesy of NDAuthorServices.com] Selecting fonts can seem daunting or pointless, because some ereaders by default display all ebooks using the device's internal fonts. At least until you realize whether or not you can override these defaults. This produces misconceptions among readers [and...

Sick of people offering easy answers about writing and publishing? You Don’t Want To Be Published goes straight for the hard answers and keeps digging. There are plenty of books that tell you how to get published, but very few that focus on how to build a career. You Don’t Want to Be Published...

Robert Holt, himself the successful author of four self-published books, now shares his knowledge and savvy with other would-be author-publishers in this step-by-step guide to every aspect of self-publishing. If you yearn join the ranks of such self published authors as Henry Thoreau, Upton...

So you’re writing a contemporary or historical mystery, or a romantic suspense thriller, or an urban fantasy, and your hero’s packing but you don’t know beans about guns. And your heroine’s a ballistics technician in the city’s Anti-Lycan Policing Organization (ALPO) and she’s going to...

It isn’t easy being the last remaining person at the dinner table or being forced to square dance with a group of sweaty seventh graders in a school cafeteria. But in My Life as a Misfit, Susan Oloier recounts growing up in the 1980s from a humorous and less-than-popular perspective with such stories as Do-Si-Don’t, Riding a Permanent Wave, Baseball, and The Food Critic.

How to Write A Novel Each Week The trick is in coming up with enough plots. A wildly prolific, early 20th century pulp writer, William Wallace Cook was a writing machine.  While he set the bar for pulp fiction, he was also passionate about the process of writing itself. Keeping...

Have you ever felt overwhelmed of how much information and how many full-length books there are about writing? Have you ever bought several books on writing, thinking they will make you write better and/or faster, but instead you read and read and push away the time your should spend writing? ...

This little book number 7 assumes that you have done all the necessary preparation. Now it is time to write the first draft of your work. First draft? Yes, no matter how good you are it will be the first. It will need editing and changing later. So because it is a draft, you should try...

Part one of this book, The Withered of Oz, is an autobiography of the author who, as a former Stage and Screen actor, director, producer and script writer, relinquished his career when his wife suffered a devastating stroke and he chose to become her full time carer. With approaching old age, the...

The Author of Missed Landing, the Olivia Plymouth Series, Saving Eddie and more shares his thoughtson the trials and tribulations of part-time writing. All of his available blogs from 2012-2016 are published in e-book form. This includes:* The Mother of Writing Crises: Disruptive Fiction.*...