Julie Rowe is the author of the War Girls series. She shares her thoughts on how she approaches writing a series versus writing a stand-alone title, “In a single title you have one story arc. In a series you have multiple, interconnected story arcs. One overall story arc that encompasses the entire series (no matter how many books are in it) and a story arc for each book that fits inside and ...
Your book needs to have a catchy, relevant, and clear title that will grab readers and pull them in. But how do you pick one?
The best titles satisfy as many of the following criteria as possible:
- The title grabs the reader’s attention.
- The title sums up the book’s concept so it will be clear what the book is about.
- The title is unique and doesn’t match another one exactly; this wil ...
A common question these days is whether self-published e-books can compete with books put out by professional publishers. And the corresponding question of whether authors published with small, medium, or the Big Five publishing houses have an advantage over self-published authors. To give you a snapshot, let’s check out the Digital Book World and Writer’s Dige ...
We can all learn a thing or two from plans that writers have for their future.
When I embarked on discovering what plans writers have in their literary future, I thought most replies would have to do with time; finding more of it, making better use of it, etc. But only Fred Elford, author of Sometimes, I Fly, mentioned it more than in passing, “I don’t think I ...
Query letters are often your ticket to a writing project. But there are some pointers to keep in mind.