The 12-Step Cure for Writer’s Block, Pt. 2: Don’t Compare Yourself to Other Writers
While you should be reading other peoples’ work all the time, it hardly does any good to bemoan the fact that you do not posses the same kind of talent that, say, Nabokov or...
What Are Literary Agents Looking for In Your Manuscript?
What do agents look for in a book?
Well, perhaps not surprisingly, they're looking for a lot of the same things as publishers; after all, that agent is going to have to convince a publisher's...
5 Secrets of Successful Authors: A Guide for Self-Publishing, Pt. 1
BookBaby has just made available (for FREE!) the first in an ongoing series of PDF guides that give you the inside secrets from indie authors who have made it big!
In part 1, learn about how...
Writing Advice: World-Building for Every Genre
How to create a world your readers will want to inhabit
(The follow article is an excerpted chapter from CJ Lyons' NO RULES, JUST WRITE: Crafting the Character Driven Novel, copyright 2011. Thanks to CJ...
