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Thinking About Your Writer’s Platform? Consider Your Online Reputation First.

You’ve probably heard about the importance of developing a writer’s platform. Before you start thinking about your writer’s platform, consider what your overall online reputation is first.

Tags: Monica Valentinelli

The Pros and Cons of Having Your Own Website

Do you need to have you own website? It depends on what you want to use the website for. Having an online presence may or may not translate to your desired action, in part because your presence really is about “you” as a person rather than “you” the author. With today’s technology, the two are not mutually exclusive.

Tags: Monica Valentinelli, web

Jump-Starting a Stalled (Or Dead) Career

Has your writing career stalled (or died) in mid-stream? John Betancourt offers some timely advice on how to jump back into the publishing boat.

Tags: John Gregory Betancourt

Writing and Selling Confessions

Having trouble “confessing” your problems? Michael Bracken, author of several confessional stories, offers a few tidbits of advice.

Tags: how-to, Michael Bracken, selling confessions, writing advice, writing confessions

Stalled Careers, Writer’s Block, and Monsters Under the Bed

So you’ve been published but no one wants your book because of previous bad sales? Melisa Michaels offers some sage advice on how to get back into the bookstores.

Tags: how to restore your writing career, stalled writing career, writing advice

A 12-Step Program for Writers

A tongue-in-cheek commentary on assumptions writers should avoid.

Tags: writing assumptions

TANSTAAFL and the Novice Writer

Article by Elizabeth Moon on advice for novice writers. Novice writers have to take some responsibility for their own careers. The good information is NOT that hard to find. The novices who don’t find it–and don’t find it repeatedly–are resisting the truth.

Tags: Elizabeh Moon, Intermediate, Moon, writing

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