8 Strategies for Tackling — and Completing — a Camp NaNoWriMo Project

8 Strategies for Tackling — and Completing — a Camp NaNoWriMo Project

We are a little late to the party, since CampNaNoWriMo just ended on April 30. But this article’s advice is useful for any writing project. Do some planning Set intermediate goals Write Every Day Try Word Sprints Write in Different Places Curb Distractions Always Carry a Notepad Get Away and Think When You Have No…

The Best Bookstores in All 50 States (BookRiot)
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The Best Bookstores in All 50 States (BookRiot)

If you are a reader, and you love bookstores, BookRiot has a blog post for you. This post lists the best bookstores in all fifty states in the U.S. (plus the District of Columbia). The list is based on a number of criteria as evaluated by BookRiot subscribers. How knowledgeable are the booksellers? What’s the selection…

3 Fun Ways to Improve Your Writing (from Grammarly)
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3 Fun Ways to Improve Your Writing (from Grammarly)

Not only is Grammarly a great site for improving the technicalities of your writing, but the blog is full of good advice and techniques. Here is a recent post describing three things you can do to improve your writing: Games and Apps! National Novel Writing Month! Getting Our Creative Juices Flowing! Click here to view…

5 Tips for Surviving a Writing Workshop (BookRiot)

This is a from a guest post from Mallory Soto from BookRiot. Mallory is a short story writer, literary fiction enthusiast, and an Editorial Assistant and Social Media Strategist in New York. Congratulations, you wrote something! Maybe it’s the first draft of a short story or a polished manuscript to a novel. Either way, it…

5 Simple Marketing Strategies for First-Time Authors

5 Simple Marketing Strategies for First-Time Authors

Brent Jones, former freelance social media manager and author of The Fifteenth of June, shares 5 simple marketing strategies that all first-time authors can (and should!) try, and how his efforts have already started to pay off. 1. Run a free Kindle promotion 2. Donate print copies to libraries and bookstores 3. Contact local media…

How to Publish a Book for Print & eBook: A Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Publish a Book for Print & eBook: A Step-by-Step Guide

There is an adage that “everyone has a book in them.” While there are millions of businesspeople, each one has done something different, taken a different path, or found something that worked for them. Your experience and knowledge could benefit other entrepreneurs. Perhaps you have suffered through some health or emotional trauma—what you experienced and…

New Releases and Featured Books (Sulis Newsletter for Authors)

We hope January was a good month for all our readers, writers, and subscribers. We have had a busy month editing and publishing a number of new nonfiction books (see below for our recent releases). We have also been working with some new authors. If you are an indie author or an academic writer, we…

10 Creative Exercises That Will Help You Improve Your Writing (writers digest)

Mention improv to a writer and chances are he’ll turn whiter than a whipped cream hat on a snowman. Most people who put pen to paper think of improv as something that can be carried off only by fearlessly funny comedians. Yet the definition of improvise is to “invent, compose or perform something extemporaneously.” What’s…

6 Ways to Approach Your Edits With Objectivity

  From NaNoWriMo: You wrote a novel! Now what? NaNoWriMo’s “Now What?” Months are here—this January and February, we’ll be helping you guide your novel through the revision and publishing process. Today, literary agent and editor Elizabeth Kracht shares her wisdom about tackling the edits on your novel: Objectivity is one of the most difficult…