What Happens When You Take a Break From Writing on Medium?
The results of my unintentional experiment. You may have noticed that I took a bit of a break from writing here on Medium for the past several months. Okay — it was eight months. The better part of a year.…
AI Detectors: The Most Terrifying Threat to Writers Everywhere
And you thought actual AI writing was the problem… You might see that headline and think I’m click-baiting you. I swear I’m not — I don’t make a habit of trying to scare people, and I generally don’t think framing…
My Experience Receiving a Revise and Resubmit from a Big 5 Publisher
The things I learned from the process, as well as from making the edits. While I was away from Medium, I was still frantically writing like my life depended on getting words on the page. It’s virtually impossible for me to…
Your Book Needs a Happily Ever After
At least if you’re going to write a romance novel — then a true HEA is a must. In case you missed it in some of my previous articles, I write romance. I also write Medium articles, and blog posts,…
Why You Should Start a Newsletter to Build Your Writing Platform
It’s all about little steps (and little wins!) that build your platform and community as a writer. I’ve been writing and building my online writing platform for about eight years now. I started with writing sporadic blogs on my website,…
Spending Money on Your Writing Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
Sometimes investing in yourself is worth the money I recently received a comment on one of my other articles that got me thinking. The comment mentioned how interesting it was to hear about how I spent money in my writing career, rather…
How to Come Up With Blog Topics for Your Brand
Or your client’s brand Content writing can be both an amazing opportunity for writers, and the bane of their existence. I would know — I’ve been content writing on and off for years, and most recently with several clients whose…
Should You Pay to Have Your Query Letter Critiqued?
Sometimes a little investment goes a long way Oh, querying. That lovely process that is required for most writers to go from writing a book to traditionally published. That same process that, at best, consists of a love-hate relationship for…
Where to Start When Creating Your Author Website
From someone who has had too many iterations of her author website to count Back in 2016, after I attended my first writing conference, I decided to start my author website. I didn’t yet have a completed manuscript, let alone any…
How to Juggle All the Things While Building Your Author Platform
If you’re trying to make it as a freelancer, self-published author, or traditionally published author, there’s probably one thing you’ve heard about over and over again: building an author platform. The days of publishing a book with one of the…
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