These six steps will help you to crystalize your needs, your hopes, and your dreams, and give you the tools to help you achieve them.
You have a book in you. I know it, you know it, but it has been how long already? I know you have a million reasons to not go ahead with it. Today, I will help you with the few reasons why you simply have to!
Direct email marketing allows you to do three things at once: remind people of your work, promote your work and boost book sales.
"Tableau vivant" or just downright crazy? When it comes to breaking through the noise of the busy book publishing ecosystem, I encourage my fellow authors to not be afraid in taking their message to the streets.
By Writer's Relief staff: Beginner and veteran writers alike can be victimized by shady literary agents. If you don’t know what to look for, you...
From Writer's Relief staff: The short story is an increasingly popular literary form in today’s market. But when short story writers find themsel...
From Writer's Relief Are you considering sharing your poems online with your Facebook friends? Making your recent series of short stories viewable ...
Passion. Persistence. Patience. Any editor worth her salt will tell you to avoid cloying alliteration but that's what thriving in academia comes down to; there's no avoiding it.
From Writer's Relief Chances are that you’ve technically been writing since you learned to write the alphabet on goofy, oversized lined paper bac...
From author Felicia Ricci's blog: Writing is a lot like lying. You weave stories that aren’t true and ask people to believe them. So I thought it...
I recently interviewed Sandy Powell, Director of Balboa Press, who talks to many struggling writers at conferences around the world. Her advice can best be summed up in this list.
As my novel debuted last January, terror defined my anticipatory state-of-being. How would I bear bad reviews? Would I look fat in the pictures? Finding no rule book, I turned to Moses.
