How to Find and Interview a Ghostwriter
Learn where to look for a ghostwriter and what to ask during the interview process to ensure the perfect fit with your project.
Do You Need a Developmental Editor?
A developmental editor can guide you toward a final manuscript that successfully reflects your ideas, insight, and authorial voice.
How Long Does It Take to Write a Book?
How do we gauge how long it might take us to write the novel, memoir, or nonfiction book we have in mind?
Are You Ready to Write That Nonfiction Book?
A simple-sounding "10-5-1" plan can help you finally get started on that nonfiction book you've been thinking of writing.
What to Look for in a Ghostwriter
How do you go about choosing the right ghostwriter for your project?
So… What's Your Book About?
Learn why it's important to home in on your book's core subject.
Writing the First Sentence
When you fill a blank page with your first sentence it can feel like a minor miracle. From nothing: something. From too many ideas about how to begin your essay, novel, nonfiction book, you home in on one and make your initial authorial decision. You may change that first sentence dozens of times, but by...
Writer's High
My drug of choice in college was Vitamin B-1. An allegedly healthy version of speed, it not only kept me up all night so I could meet an English Lit deadline—it kept me way up: enthused, imaginative, eloquent, ultra-brilliant. Or so I thought. One night, through my B-1 eyes, my Daniel Defoe essay became downright...
Kindle: Friend or Foe - Cuddling Up With My Kindle
I was the last person in Los Angeles to get a microwave. I only use my cell phone for outgoing calls. I forget how to access the Netflix and Hulu features on my Roku system. I don't know how to use my husband's food processor or my son's GPS. I waited until 2010 to buy...