by Jeffrey Ainis |
As a self-help author, your intention to help people will, in itself, make the world a better place. But the success of a self-help book depends on how well you convey that help and how easy you make it for that help to be received. Personal growth is a $10 billion...
by Tom Corson-Knowles
If you’re self-publishing a book, you’ll need to include a copyright page in the front of your book. All you need to include on your copyright page is just a few words that look like this: Copyright © 2019 by Your Name All Rights Reserved. However, most...
by Tom Corson-Knowles
Coming up with a great book title is tough. Sometimes a great title will just pop into your mind while you’re in the shower or taking a walk, but more often than not finding the perfect title for a book requires weeks or even months of thinking. If you...
by Jacob Mohr |
All good things must come to an end—including your future bestselling novel. But while so much has been written about the fine and noble art of beginning a story, advice on finishing one is scandalously scant. On the surface, this makes sense—your opening pages are...
by Tom Corson-Knowles |
If you want to write the next Glee, why don’t you do what their writers did? Do you think they created the story on the fly? Do you think they came to work on Monday morning and said, “I wonder what predicament we can throw in this week?” Did you think they had winged...
by Tom Corson-Knowles
Your story starts at the beginning, and beginnings are so important. I often hear from writers that the book really gets going a few chapters in. So why don’t you start the story there? In this era of micro attention spans, most readers are not going to...
