by Winter | Sep 19, 2016 | Author's Life, Resources, Writing Tips and Tools
When Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid first debuted in 2004 and Lemony Snicket’s eleventh novel in A Series of Unfortunate events was published later that same year, another great book was about to hit shelves — The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell...
by Winter | Sep 7, 2016 | Author's Life, Resources, Writing Tips and Tools
There’s an old line about stories that’s been attributed to many great writers (Leo Tolstoy, anyone?), but really only got started with educator John Gardner when he wrote, “As subject, use either a trip or the arrival of a stranger (some disruption...
by Winter | Aug 29, 2016 | Writing Tips and Tools
An author knows that for every new social media site that pops up, there’s another new profile that has to be built. In fact, we’re living in what has been dubbed “The Golden Age of social media” since 2001, and with new media being launched...
by Winter | Aug 17, 2016 | Author's Life, Writing Tips and Tools
As some of you may know, to submit with us, you only need a query letter, a summary, and the first three chapters of your completed Fiction or Non-Fiction manuscript. “Only,” you repeat back dryly. We know. We’re writers too, remember? And because of that, we’re...