by Jacob Mohr
Last time in this ongoing series, we introduced you to 10 big life lessons we learned from Divergent. This week, we’re counting down 7 awesome life lessons we learned from Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender’s Game. The publication of Ender’s Game in 1985 is widely...
by Jacob Mohr |
You might have noticed that here at TCK Publishing, we’re big into productivity. We’re just nuts about it. We’re always looking for new ways to write more, write faster, and eliminate distractions and interruptions from our work—and we like to share what we find with...
by Jacob Mohr
Whether you’re publishing your first novel or your fifteenth, a great launch is critical to the success of any book. But sometimes things don’t go quite as planned. So what went wrong? Maybe groundswell wasn’t there. Maybe your marketing didn’t go far enough. Maybe...
by Jacob Mohr |
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — Mike Tyson Every good story needs conflict—and nothing screams conflict quite like a fistfight. Because, hey, fights are exciting! That’s why westerns end with shootouts and duels at high noon, and why...
by Jacob Mohr |
Why do people tell stories? It’s a fair question. After all, we’ve been doing it for as long as we’ve had language itself. The first known written story, The Epic of Gilgamesh, is thought to be over 3,000 years old, but oral tradition—the practice of telling stories...
