Renee Bauer never planned to trade her keyboard for a microphone, yet one published book somehow put her in front of a room of five hundred people. She unpacks how saying “yes” to speaking gigs turned into a whole new income stream, and why writers might just make the most memorable speakers of all.
Robert A. Walker gets real about why sloppy self-publishing sinks books, then lays out how cash-strapped indie authors can polish their work without breaking the bank.
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Who says you’re too old to start? Michael Saver began journaling to work through his own life and ended up with a 320-page murder mystery, proof that a first book can arrive at any age. His five hard-won lessons on finding your voice, silencing your inner critic, and treating the whole thing like a marathon are exactly the encouragement any hesitant writer needs.
Barry Finlay set out to plot his thrillers the sensible way, then his characters staged a quiet rebellion and refused to follow the outline. His honest take on plotting versus pantsing lands somewhere delightfully in between, and it might just free up any writer who’s been white-knuckling their own storyline.
Between raising two kids, working in healthcare, and training for an ultramarathon, Lesley Prosko doesn’t have endless hours to feed the social media algorithm, and neither do most authors. In this piece, she makes a refreshingly guilt-free case for letting AI handle the grind while you save your creative energy for what actually matters.
Most writers file their rejection letters somewhere they never have to look at them again. T.D. Severin did the opposite, mining his for three throwaway lines that sent him back into Deadly Vision for a full rewrite. That rewrite went on to win the Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition, the American Fiction Award, and the Grand Prize at BookFest.
Not every writer is built to crank out a 300-page novel, and C.K. Sobey is here to tell you that’s a good thing. She reflects on how a pandemic-era clear-out of old journals revealed her true creative rhythm, and why chasing someone else’s format might be the thing holding your best work hostage.
Setting isn’t scenery. J.H. Mann makes the case that a rising tide or a looming house can do the work of an antagonist, with craft advice drawn from du Maurier’s Manderley and Cornwall’s Atlantic coast.
Award-winning author B.A. Bellec used one of the most debated tools in publishing to help edit his fourth novel, Cobalt Lungs. In this series, he documents exactly how he did it, what it saved him, and the ethical questions he worked through along the way.