Freelance writers, have you had this conversation before? “What do you do for a living?” “I’m a freelance writer.” “Oh.” Oh, you’re between jobs. Oh, you can’t find another one. Oh, you work from home. Oh is a subtle judgment, isn’t it? This response usually comes...
Authors face a great many challenges as we put together our manuscripts. Primary among them is working to erase our tracks on the page, creating a seamless connection between readers and our fictional world. In this, Kevin Spacey’s quote from The Usual...
Launching a freelance writing career can be difficult. If you’re just getting started, there’s a lot to learn. How much should you charge? How do you find clients? When should you go full time? While these are all major elements of your business, sometimes the smaller...
Publishing children’s books on Kindle just became a little easier. While authors have long been able to post illustrated books through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, the books were simply text and images. However, you can now add a little interactivity to...
Do you have a messy desk? It may be affecting your writing career! You want to write, but you can’t. It’s not writer’s block, a lack of ideas or a blank wall. Instead, it’s information overload with myriad to-dos fighting for precedence in your mind. You start to make...
Joanna’s new book Business for Authors: How to be an Author Entrepreneur is out now in ebook, print and audio. Your manuscript starts as just one document. Because of this, authors generally think in terms of one book — and they don’t realize that multiple...
Do you have all day, every day, to write? Nope? Me neither. In fact, pretty much every professional writer — whether they’re a novelist, freelancer, nonfiction author or blogger — has to start building their career around an already-busy life. Maybe...
Where’s your favorite place to write? Does your writing space help you be productive and stay organized? If you need some inspiration, check out the writing spaces and environments of these famous artists, writers and storytellers. 1. E.B. White, author Sometimes all...
As a freelance blogger, it’s all too easy to get bogged down with unimportant tasks. You know the feeling, when you’re “busy being busy” with all of those tasks that don’t actually lead to more income. For examples: Browsing your social media accounts Reading blog...
You’ve probably read a few articles on how to market your book, and selling more copies is important. But what if you could also make an extra $0.50 on each sale? If you sold four thousand copies this year, that would add up to an extra $2,000 in your pocket...
