We’ve all been there before. You’re working on a crackerjack creative project, but something’s missing. Maybe you’re designing the cover of your next self-published bestselling novel. Maybe you’re laying out a website for a client’s business. Maybe you want to add a...
They say, “Never judge a book by its cover,” yet we all do. People judge other people by first appearances, and customers judge the books they buy by their covers. You can’t have an unattractive, plain-looking design on your book’s cover and expect to sell millions of...
I talk in this other blog post about how not knowing what to write is a kind of writer’s block that can grind your blogging to a halt. In this post, we’ll take a look at how not knowing how to write it can be another kind of writer’s block to plague your blogging...
If there’s one thing we know here at TCK Publishing, it’s the value of a good book. Reading’s one of the all-time great hobbies: it’s fun, it’s relaxing, and it’s good for your mind and body. Not only can books teach us about ourselves and about the world, but they...
We’ve said it before—the soul of any story is conflict. Your hero has a dream, but something’s standing in her way. Maybe it’s a mountain. Maybe it’s a debt. Maybe it’s self-doubt or self-loathing or just plain old fear of the unknown. But no matter the source, the...