How (and Why) to Build an Author Website

How (and Why) to Build an Author Website

What You Should Know So here’s where you start your website project: with a pen and piece of paper. Daydream some answers to questions like these: What do I want to know about other writers? Why will people visit my website? What should people learn about me? How will...
Book Publishing and Home Building

Book Publishing and Home Building

Putting out a book is like building a house—you need to start with good plans, and it takes a lot of work. And if you approach self-publishing with the amount of rigor it takes to build a house by focusing on the blueprints, hiring the right contractors, having...
Pro Tip: Don’t Call an Agent

Pro Tip: Don’t Call an Agent

Normally I use this blog to share relevant advice on writing and publishing and marketing and book sales, and today’s no different, just more fun: Don’t be like oddball genius Mark Baumer and call an agent and say anything like he does in this video: Mark...
Do You Need a Publishing Consultant?

Do You Need a Publishing Consultant?

  You might have seen three quotes on the front page of this website that seem counterintuitive to promoting myself as a publishing consultant. These are directed at people who are interested in self-publishing. The first one, from NPR’s On the Media,...
Why I Publish Books

Why I Publish Books

This spring I was a visiting writer at Savannah College of Art and Design. It was a great opportunity to meet with engaged writers and discuss subjects like how publishing works, challenges presented by (and against) conceptual writing, how you can push stories till...