Whether you’re on deadline for a client or your laptop battery is clinging to its final dribs of power mid-writing session, when you’re an active writer, chances are, at some point, you will have to write under tight time pressure.

Try this exercise and write your query letter before you write your next book to keep your manuscript focused and help you pitch it to agents and publishers.

Whether as a substance check, a means to kick-off the writing process, or a vehicle to share your story with beta readers, agents, and publishers, there is a lot of value in a book synopsis.

The first step toward success as an independent author is educating yourself about everything involved with self-publishing. It’s what your book — this project to which you’ve invested so much emotion and time — undoubtedly deserves.

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Creating videos can be as satisfying as writing books, so don’t be afraid to extend your communication outreach to new dimensions by producing an inexpensive, but compelling, book trailer.

Great writing is all about great motion and change — and every bit of motion needs a motivation. You can track these cycles by creating a motion map.

You might not be familiar with the process of writing a business plan, but you can tell a story. Why not put that talent to use for your vision statement for 2020?

What you include in the front matter of your book depends on the information you want to impart to your reader to help enhance, explain, or set things up.

The health and emotional benefits of reading are reason enough to read more, but there are plenty of others... so set a reading goal and get to it!