“How can my book be part of a larger whole?”

It’s the question Ryan Frederick, author of Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of...

“The world is changing all the time. We can’t cling to one way of doing things,” Anne Janzer, thought leader and author of The Writer’s Voice, says.

Gone are the days of...

“You should write a book!”

Most thoughts leaders have heard this at least once in their life. It’s the go-to format for content.

But is a book the best format for your content?

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“You can’t republish your Master’s thesis.”

It’s one piece of advice Kristin Keffeler, author of The Myth of the Silver Spoon, received from an editor. It’s...

A good book proposal is key to landing a book deal.

It’s a business plan for your book.

It helps your book stay focused on its main idea (its thesis).

It helps you determine where your book...

To become a nonfiction bestselling author, it all comes down to numbers.

To make the New York Times Best Seller list, you need to sell 5,000 to 10,000 copies in a week.

To make The Wall Street...

I know what you’re thinking: “How are screenwriting principles applicable to writing a book?”

It seems farfetched, right?

Book writing is tens of thousands of words of prose....

Scenes are the building blocks to good storytelling.

But too many new writers struggle to conceptualize their story in scenes. They think a scene is a dinner table conversation. Or a mere stroll...

One of the most common questions we receive from fiction writers is “How do I plot my book?”

It’s the question that dominates writing conferences and a simple Google search...

Every book needs a developmental edit. Even professional writers do. In fact, professional writers crave developmental editing, because they know they don’t know it all.

But too many new...

Think about your favorite book or movie. What makes it your favorite?

It’s probably a combination of things—an applicable life lesson, jaw-dropping choreography and action, an intense...

Commercially viable memoirs are akin to novels. They engage the reader through storytelling techniques.

But new memoirists struggle to write an engaging story. They spend too much time inside...