Wishing you the opportunities you crave and the resources you deserve in 2019. Read More
The New Year’s Eve of Time
Great Expectations vs. Skepticism
How hard do you find it is for others to see you as the writer you are? How fashionable is it for us all to wax skeptical? Read More
DBW's Writers' Conference: A New Format for the New Professional Author
No parade of panels here. Instead, we’ve devised a tightly targeted format for DBW Indie Author, to send you back to your career grounded, focused, smarter. Read More
#CreditWriters: Authors Crediting Authors
#CreditWriters: Because if writers don’t credit each other, who will? And why not make it easy for your fellow writers to credit you? Read More
Use Twitter Analytics to Boost Your Social Media Marketing
‘You’re looking at a whole page of intelligence about your social media marketing on Twitter and how your presence on this vast medium is playing out.’ Read More
Facing Up to the Importance of Your Author Photo
Raise your hand if a family member took your ‘professional’ headshot. Every two years, you need a professionally made career headshot. A real one. Read More
Political Correctitude
In a season of kneejerk tweets and reckless declarations, I wish you the peace of knowing that you stopped to think. No one else’s gospel matters. Write your own, that’s the one we need now. Read More
Escapism is for Readers; Writers Stay in Place
Starting November 8, your readers have become different. However they may lean politically, is escapism what they need from writers? Read More
Unbound's Jason Cooper: 'Too Many Titles in a Small Space'
‘The need for extreme success is now a requirement rather than a boon,’ says the UK’s Jason Cooper in the run-up to Frankfurt’s conference on The Markets. Read More
Authors and the Demand for Warnings: Writing in a Trigger-Happy World
How can we ask authors to ply the range and radiance of human experience if they’re expected to provide trigger warnings? – Porter Anderson Read More