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Five Great Storytelling Lessons from Harry Potter Principle One: Plant the seeds early, but plant them loosely and let them grow

This year- and possibly for years to come – everyone will be talking about The Boy Who Lived and his son, Albus, the main protagonist of the new 2016 addition to the Harry Potter series. In anticipation of the (unexpected) new addition, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, I decided to re-read the entire series, […]

By |2024-01-06T22:41:13+00:00|The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off on Five Great Storytelling Lessons from Harry Potter Principle One: Plant the seeds early, but plant them loosely and let them grow
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Book Titles: Trends to Avoid Self-Publishing expert Morgana Gallaway tells us what to be wary of when naming our novel

There are three important elements of a novel. The story is only one of them. The other two are about connecting readers to that story: the cover, and the title.

Just as in fashion, book titles have trends.

Titles are a contentious subject for fiction writers; most publishing contracts have a clause stipulating that the author’s wishes will be […]

By |2024-01-06T21:47:59+00:00November 9th, 2016|Industry Insights|Comments Off on Book Titles: Trends to Avoid Self-Publishing expert Morgana Gallaway tells us what to be wary of when naming our novel
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A History of the Great Divide: Literature vs. Genre Fiction Breathing life into a post-modern Prometheus

literary coffeeI was once involved in a near knockdown drag-out fight that began with my assertion that John Irving’s The World According to Garp was a great piece of “literature.” The wine-swilling MFA fiction writer seated across from me at the bar took […]

By |2024-01-06T22:47:23+00:00|The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off on A History of the Great Divide: Literature vs. Genre Fiction Breathing life into a post-modern Prometheus
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Writing with Voice Editor Shannon Roberts on building your authorial voice in unexpected ways

[by Shannon Roberts]

Confession: When I first started writing, I copied.

Not ideas—not consciously anyway—but voice

Initially I modeled my work after one of my (at the time) favorite bloggers and web-comic writers, Jerry Holkins. I started to fold in some Terry Pratchett and I sampled from […]

By |2024-01-06T21:48:36+00:00|The Writer’s Craft|Comments Off on Writing with Voice Editor Shannon Roberts on building your authorial voice in unexpected ways
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YOU NEED A GOOD EDITOR: What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Publishing My Own Book – Part 1

517qgQSdkIL[Guest post by Rob MacCavett]

Now that my novel, Flaming Harry Sweeney, is self-published, I can offer a hearty congratulations to none other than myself—and more importantly, advice on “What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started” to you fellow travelers and aspiring authors. First off, do […]

By |2024-01-07T18:41:31+00:00|Self Publishing|Comments Off on YOU NEED A GOOD EDITOR: What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Publishing My Own Book – Part 1
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PUBLISHING YOUR WORK IS HARD WORK: What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Publishing My Own Book – Part 2

[Guest post by Rob MacCavett]

This blog is part of a series. For “What I Wish I’d Know Before I Started: Part 1” please click here.

And so as the sun slowly set over the peaks and valleys of composing a first book, I bid a fond farewell to creative writing as I prepared to travel […]

By |2024-01-07T18:43:45+00:00|Self Publishing|Comments Off on PUBLISHING YOUR WORK IS HARD WORK: What I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Publishing My Own Book – Part 2
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