Our 5-day Goal Setting Workshop will provide you with the tools you need to boost your productivity, set your goals and reach them. This Workshop Makes Goal Setting Easy! Each short daily lesson (delivered via email) is followed by a specific, tangible action step. Here’s what the workshop covers: Day 1 – Deciding What You…
by Irene S. Roth, Contributing Editor It takes hard work to become the best writer you can be. But it’s worth the effort. Many writers shy away from believing they can become excellent writers. Personally, I’ve been writing nonfiction e-books, newspaper, and magazine articles as well as blogs for three decades. Yet, I still can’t…
Fearless Writing That is Fun and Profitable As a writing coach, I meet people all the time who don’t embrace fearless writing, which keeps them from starting or expanding a writing career. The truth is, the freelance writing life just isn’t right for most people. At least not traditional freelance writing, where you have to…
by Contributing Editor Irene Roth December can be a tricky month for writers. There are so many social engagements we’re expected to attend. Then there’s the shopping, decorating, and cleaning leading up to the holidays. There are so many expectations placed on us by the media, too. It can be hard to find the time…
by Gail L. Fontana We are on the cusp of Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. I wish you all happiness, love, and cups running over with gratitude and blessings. Today I have an interview with middle-grade author Carlie Sorosiak. I recently read her latest novel, Always, Clementine. She tells the story of a lab mouse…
I love to spotlight interesting author and their books here at writebythesea. In this post, Dur e Aziz Amna, author of American Fever is in the Spotlight. Dur e Aziz Amna grew up in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and now lives in Michigan. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Longreads, among…
by Carolyn Howard-Johnson Once upon a time, way back in the last decade, author and researcher Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s publicity predicament illustrated to the world of books what we authors suspected all along: Huge amounts of publicity surrounding a release don’t necessarily translate into massive sales figures. In fact, the result of a major publicity…
Even though many children’s magazines and even children’s book publishers do not require a bibliography of your sources, you as the author need to develop a system of tracking where your research is from.
by Tina M. Games Whether we realize it or not, many of us are stuck in a “money pattern” – and it affects everything we think, see, and do around money. Our beliefs about money have been handed down to us through generations, in a variety of different ways, shaping how we view the subject…
Are writing contests really worth the time and effort, not to mention the fee that is often required for entering? Many writers seem to think so.
While you’re submitting your picture book manuscript (your baby!) to publishers, so are thousands of other people. Think editors or first readers have time to read every word of every submission? Nuh-uh. So your first job is to create an opening that dazzles.
In today’s world, many traditional publishers won’t offer a contract to a writer who doesn’t already have an established online platform (an author platform). But how do you create an online platform for your books if you don’t have any published books yet? It seems like a Catch-22. Yet, you can create your online platform…
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