The 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.
Read MoreWhat if, for whatever reason, writing conferences aren’t available to you? What if you’re trying to keep costs down, stay close to home, and give your writing life a productivity booster shot within those parameters?
If so, there’s nothing that says you can’t have a successful writing staycation, my term for a homemade writing retreat. In this blog post, we’ll focus on planning and prep work that will help you set yourself up for success so that when you hunker down and put pen to paper, you’ll have smooth sailing from beginning to end.
Read MoreHow can you keep moving your writing career forward when the vast majority of us are practicing social distancing and a coffee date is out of the question? The brunt of your networking in the age of COVID-19 will be through recorded and live video platforms, via email, or over the phone.
Read MoreEspecially if you are an aspiring author looking for a book deal, you should get enthusiastic about email newsletters—at least the ones covering trade publishing news. There are many reasons that we as writers should follow industry news, more than I could brainstorm for one blog. The following three are just the tip of what I hope is a very convincing iceberg.
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