Sitemap - 2025 - Before and After the Book Deal
How to influence your book cover design
Cover story: The author's role in book design
What is the copyediting process like for authors?
#FridayReads: Nine writers to watch
A beautiful place for a bad reason
Introducing "Path to Publication": A new series sharing book prep from an author's point of view
How to tolerate the days you write like crap
Friday reads and a subscriber's query revision
Is your children's book too smart for children?
Blowout birthday sale + September reads
What your novel's description needs to suggest if you're aiming for the Big Five
How to make your novel sound like it's about something even if you don't know what it's about yet
What an unwieldy description of your novel tells agents about your book
How to summarize a multi-POV novel in a query letter - Subscriber workshop 2 of 4
Difficult goodbyes plus August opportunities
Helicopter parenting my novel manuscript
Subscriber workshop 1 of 4: Does your query letter support your opening page?
Editing under pressure and cheating on Track Changes
Is your manuscript ready to query? Checkpoint your opening pages.
Craft from the Couch: Episode 07 | Will Roth of Creature Publishing
June opportunities for writers
Debuting in community—a conversation with Big Five authors about what publishing is really like
Financial literacy post #03 part two: Common myths about making money as an author, continued
Common myths about making money as an author (Financial literary post #03 part I)
Reading Room #02: A poem for Mother's Day by Rachel Zucker...plus a giveaway!
Reading Room #01: A short story by Kyle Seibel
How I'm tackling developmental edits for a novel under contract
A special Mother's Day offer for a certain kind of woman
Coaching the character—a new technique for writers
Financial literacy post #02: How I make money as an author_Part 2
Financial Literacy post #01: How I make money as an author
AWP Los Angeles: Lessons learned & people met
My top tips for AWP Los Angeles 2025
The three things Meghan Markle gets wrong about prescriptive memoir in her Netflix show
How do you know when your manuscript is "finished"?
Have the Big Five publishers actually killed literary fiction?
Roosters and phantoms and salsa, oh my.
Decoding agent rejections plus a full list of resources for querying writers
Can we talk about Young Sheldon?
Ask away: Friday Office Hours on all things querying
Query do's and query don'ts for 2025