If you are passionate about writing a book, or about having written a book, then the book becomes one of the most important things you’ll ever do. Author or writer success is not about becoming well-known or signing contracts or selling books; it’s about creating a written work that expresses what you had inside you that needed to be said. I’ve worked with dozens of …(there’s more) Continue reading
So You Want to Write for Money? (This is a special guest post by one of our favorite writers. Grant will visit once or twice a month and explain the business of writing. His articles are spot-on for authors and writers interested in developing business sense or refining the way they run their writing businesses.) By Grant McDuling Don’t you find it strange that so …(there’s more) Continue reading
Why in the world would anyone want to be a ghostwriter? Your name does not appear anywhere on the ghostwritten book or project. You get no royalties. There’s very little fame or fortune involved in ghostwriting. Well, maybe fortune — if you’re good at it and your business runs properly, this is a lucrative field. The best reason to be a ghostwriter, the one that …(there’s more) Continue reading
I’ve been hand-to-hand wrestling with the online e-publishing industry searching for a way to help my fellow writers and authors. I’m hot on the trail with a new tool called Pressbooks, brought to us by Hugh McGuire, a serial web entrepreneur. He writes for O’Reilly Radar (O’Reilly Media is one of my favorite companies on earth). He founded LibriVox and Book Oven, among other book-centric web …(there’s more) Continue reading
I guess analogy sort of makes publishing like the mafia. I don’t know if I would draw that connection too broadly, but there is this one similarity: If you sit on the sidelines and call yourself a writer for too long, eventually you’re going to be called upon to prove yourself worthy of the title. Eventually, you have to make your move. I set out …(there’s more) Continue reading
