Guest Post: How to Survive Quitting Your Day Job to Become a Writer

By Michael Voss and Jennifer Rock Nearly three years ago, we left our perfectly comfortable jobs in one of Minneapolis’s largest companies to take the ultimate leap: finishing our debut novel.

Guest Post from Jennifer Kern Collins: 5 Tips for Navigating the Inner Drama of Getting Your Book Out There

Let’s face it, getting a book “out there” is kind of a thing.

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Guest Post from Ricardo Fayet: How to Build a Reader Referral Program

“Discoverability” is the hottest topic at any trade show or writers’ conference and gets dedicated at least a dozen blog posts a day on the internet; but it seems that no one has cracked it, really.

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Planning Your World Wide (Web) Tour

Good news, indie authors: you too can feel like Beyoncé when promoting your new book by going on a world-wide tour—a World Wide Web tour, that is.

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The Ultimate Blogger’s Guide to Growing Your Readership

It’s 11:30 on a Monday night and there you are, curled up in your down comforter, staring at your bleak blog stats.

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Guest Post from Jason Mosberg: Beware of Trademarks in Your Cover Art!

After choosing from nearly ten interested agents, my YA novel was headed to a dozen editors at all the best publishing houses.

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Guest Post from Steve Aedy: From Grief to Glory: 5 Perfect Moments to Start Writing a Book

“Whether or not you get a single word on paper, the sun will rise, the earth will spin, the universe will expand.

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Guest Post from M. Elias Keller: Serious Research Tips for Serious Fiction Writers

Research.

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Guest Post from Juliet Philip: The Writing Mojo: Why do YOU Write?

Do you write to send a message to an audience?

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