The good news is: you’re getting paid to write! Congrats! This is a dream come true for so many people. Take a moment to relish that thought before moving to the next paragraph.
The bad news is: if you’re making income as a writer, then your tax return may not be as simple as filing a 1040-EZ anymore.
Read MoreHave you ever read through your novel, noticed a continuity error, and then realized that—oh no!—when you took a few months away from the project, you picked back up with the continuity error, which then avalanched into a major (and factually inaccurate) plot point, and now you have to overhaul what you thought was a completed novel?
Ahh!
Let’s make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Read MoreCovid-19 + dropping print sales + a flat trade market may suggest “yes.”
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Even the most talented, thoughtful writer can miss critical mistakes when it comes to a passion project. Objective editorial feedback – whether from a professional editor, a beta reader, or even a software program – can help catch and correct embarrassing mistakes before they’re disseminated, along with the manuscript, to a wider audience.
Read MoreThe author biography is an important part of your toolkit as a writer. Primarily it shares your existing professional and publication credits with the person reading it, which means it’s something of an appeal to your authority as a good, experienced writer.
If you’re new to the process, let me give you a couple general rules to follow as you craft your author biography. Then I’ll give you more specific rules to follow when it comes to author bios in query letters, submission letters, and as bylines for published articles.
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