By Aaron Gansky @ADGansky Maybe it’s a psychological thing, some innate fear that our readers won’t pick up on our subtlety. So we over write. I’m a huge offender of this, but I’ve seen some published works that are pretty bad, too. Have you seen the “almost” sentence? Jake was…

By James Hannibal @jamesrhannibal Do you ever yell at your TV screen? I do—more often than a Christian who carries the hope and peace of Christ should. My wife, patting my arm, always tries to calm me down. “I know, honey. They got it wrong. They always get it wrong.”…

By W. Terry Whalin @terrywhalin “As an acquisitions editor, you should not be blogging,” one of my long-term writer friends told me in 2008. I worked inside a well-known publisher and she believed a blog was a complete waste of my time.  I was an early adapter to the blogging trend. …

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28 A new year means fifty-two new blog posts to plan. Fifty-two! Or less if you blog every other week. Regardless, that is a lot of posts. The excitement of a new year brings joy, especially with the hopes of a vaccine in this pandemic. But how…

by Lindsey Brackett @LindsBrac You’ve done it! You wrote a book. You found an agent and house. You independently published. Either way, you have a book you can hold in your hands or scroll on your phone and now the question is—how do you find readers?  Enter reader groups! One…

By Larry Leech @LarryJLeechII Done. Finished.  The end of another year—an insanely, crazy, pull-out-your-hair year. Good-bye 2020.  Mic drop. That might be how many people feel about this year. But that is certainly not how a reader should feel when they reach the end of one of your chapters. Our…