by Maria Arnt | Feb 15, 2021 | Writing Your Book
It’s every writer’s worst nightmare – you’ve had a friend or colleague read your manuscript, and the only feedback they have to offer is “it just wasn’t that interesting.” Or worse, they couldn’t manage to finish reading the book because it didn’t hold their...
by Maria Arnt | Jan 25, 2021 | Writing Your Book
By Maria Arnt | A 4-minute read One of the challenges of writing long-form fiction is trying to break it up into comprehensive chapters. A few avant-garde authors choose to forgo them completely, but for the most part, your readers are going to expect your work to be...
by Maria Arnt | Jan 4, 2021 | Writing Your Book
A 4-minute read So you’ve written a book, gotten it published, formed a marketing plan, and put it in action. Congratulations, you’re an author! It’s not uncommon for an author to spend so much time and effort getting that first book (or series of books) out into the...
by Maria Arnt | Nov 9, 2020 | Market Access, Marketing Your Book, Producing Your Book, Publishing & Distribution, Writing Your Book
A four-minute read If you’ve never written and published a book before, it can be incredibly overwhelming to figure out just what all is involved. How exactly do you go from deciding to write a book to holding that book in your hands? Well, the answer is, regrettably,...
by Maria Arnt | Nov 9, 2020 | Writing Your Book
A seven-minute read. One of the hardest parts of being a writer is accepting that your first draft is probably not great, and that to make your book the best it’s going to be, you need other people to tell you what needs fixing. But it can be hard to handle the...
by Maria Arnt | Nov 9, 2020 | Uncategorized, Writing Your Book
A four-minute read. Picking a New Year’s resolution is rarely difficult for writers. Who doesn’t want to get more writing done this year? But keeping it is another thing altogether, and the trick is setting your goal in a way that helps you get it done. I’m uniquely...