Marie, a blog reader, has been working on her storyboard and organizing her chapters, using the three act system that is so helpful for s...

Book journeys are divided into very distinct experiences:  the creation of the book and the selling of the manuscript.  Many writers stru...

Realtors know that location is everything in buying or selling property.  Try to sell a house that's near a busy highway or high tensio...

If you have any love for the refining and shaping process of making a book, revision can be much anticipated.  I'm not talking about ...

A colleague sent me two fascinating articles recently about the reasonable and unreasonable expectations we writers have of the writing l...

Last year, I coached a business owner who was writing a book about his years as a wildly successful entrepreneur.  He attributed much of ...

Two of my past students released new books this year.  Katherine Dering, of New York, launched her second memoir,  Aftermath,  and Judith M...

Some writers don't believe in writer's block--that stall out, mind- and spirit-numbing experience that occasionally visits us when ...

A reader sent me this link, a brief article by award-winning writer Annie Proulx on her five rules for good writing.  Even if you don...

A reader from Connecticut is finishing up her new novel this month, getting ready to send it out to agents.  She sent me a good question t...