To get your books written, it helps to find the writing process that works for you. Some authors prefer to get the plot down in detail while others take an idea and begin writing from there. …

Reach more readers by repurposing your content. There are a variety of ways to do this. Read to learn more and see what would work for you. Think about all the content you have created. While books may be your first thought (you are a writer after all!), expand on…

Market your writing with regular updates on social media. Here are free tools authors can use to schedule posts. There is no doubt that social media can be a time suck. How often have you gone in to do a quick check and 30 minutes later you are still there…

You’ve invested time creating your content. Once complete, you add it to your Content Master List. Now, let’s get the word out about it! We’ll do that by creating microcontent to promote your written work. What Is Microcontent? Microcontent is short content you use to share about your book, blog post or YouTube…

Can you easily find information on any of your published works? What about the Amazon link for your first book? What day you published a certain blog post? What about the link to the podcast episode you were a guest on last year? If you said no to any of…

Thinking of participating in NaNoWriMo? Below I share my experience of doing it for the first draft of The Stonemason’s Secret. What Is NaNoWriMo? NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal is for participants to write 50,000 words on their novel during the 30 days of November. That averages out to…

The Stonemason’s Secret, my forthcoming novel, follows the adventures of art historian Sarah Walker. While doing research for her dissertation, she discovers mysterious symbols carved on several of the minstrel figures in Beverley Minster. …

“I’ll never write fiction,” I said. “I have no interest in writing fiction and besides, I have no ideas for stories.” This is what I told myself when I started writing two years ago. At the time I was drawn to personal essays, to telling my stories. I wrote and…

After the thrill of printing off the first draft, I took a couple of days off then began a read-through. The idea was to sit back and catch the big things — where the plot didn’t make sense, information that needed to be added in, things like that. But I…