Today Paulette Callen, author of Charity and Fervent Charity, talks about Metaphor and Simile: Figurative language. Comparing one thing with another, unlike thing. (Simile is the one using like or as; metaphor is…the other one.) This, the short, paraphrased [...]
You have probably heard of Goodreads, but just in case you haven’t: Goodreads is basically Facebook for book lovers—an online community of twenty-five million readers. Yes, that’s right—twenty-five million. So you can imagine that Goodreads provides some great opportunities [...]
Apart from creating a good website, there’s one great online marketing tool available to authors in particular: activity in social networks. Not in all of them, but specifically in those frequented by the target audience of your books. You [...]
Today Angelika Niere, director at BIEG Hessen, an office established by various Hessian Chambers of Commerce and Industry to help small companies improve their online marketing, talks about the importance of an author’s website: We live in an era [...]
Today Angelika Niere, director at BIEG Hessen, an office established by various Hessian Chambers of Commerce and Industry to help small companies improve their online marketing, talks about the importance of online marketing: Everybody can do online marketing. It [...]
We asked Paulette Callen, author of Charity and Fervent Charity, what kind of advice she would give to new writers. Here is her anwer: If you are a new, just-starting-out writer (that doesn’t mean YOUNG…you can start writing at [...]
Before you submit your manuscript to a publisher or a literary agent, make sure you read the submission guidelines and follow them to the letter. Many acquisition editors and agents that are faced with stacks of submissions every day [...]
Today, we want to blog about something we noticed in many of the manuscript authors send us: Often, authors don’t seem to know where to start and end paragraphs—and I admit that’s not easy to learn since there’s hardly [...]
One of the reasons why publishers reject manuscripts is that authors did not read—or chose to ignore—the submission guidelines. Most publishers have a specific focus and a specific format in which they want to receive submissions, usually described in [...]
In our last blog posts about writing tips we gave advice on how to write good dialogue and how to use dialogue tags. Today, we want to blog about how to punctuate dialogue. Every writer should be able to [...]