Whether you’re going the traditional route or self-publishing, you’re probably going to run into book advances either on your book contract or on third party contracts. So here are the bare bones of terms so you can make the best decision for your publishing journey!

When putting the final touches on your story, most people focus on the font for the cover–which is really important! But what about the internal book font?

Listening to all the writing advice out there, so much is focused on making your writing fast-paced, but boring scenes are actually a vital piece of the puzzle to making your story successful. Let’s talk about it.

For those of you writing sci fi and fantasy, one of the key questions you had to ask yourself when creating your world was—what should you do about any alien or foreign language? And this is a huge—and sometimes tricky—topic in the writing community.

Today we’re going to talk about creating a cover design brief for your book! The goal of a cover is to catch the readers’ eye and give them an instant feel or idea for the type of story. Download my free workbook template for everything you should include in your brief.

If you are a fan of this channel, you’ll know we talk a lot about identifying your story genre, being familiar with it so you can either follow or bend genre expectations. Making sure you are giving the reader what they want and able to market your story correctly to get your book to those demanding eyes and ears.

But within this, there is a new term on the rise — Microgenres. 

Previously a popular term mostly in the music and movie community, the book world is now adapting it for their purposes as well. So what is a microgenre?

Let’s discuss!

We’re quickly coming up on the new year—a fresh start and a time when everyone is excited to plan new goals, new habits, and make next year the best year yet.

But to start 2022 off right, you first want to take a look back at 2021.

So this is going to be a two part post: this week, we’ll talk about how to evaluate your previous year, what to look at, what to consider, and then next week will be all about taking that information and making realistic, achievable goals.

So let’s take a look at your 2021! And as an added bonus, if you are curious, at the end of the video, I’ll go over some of what I found out in the review of my 2021. Including how many books I read, which is always a big question I get asked.

So let’s dive in!