06.09.26

How to Get Book Reviews As An Indie Author

A woman in a striped swimsuit sits on a playground structure, absorbed in a copy of Ulysses by James Joyce — evoking the everyday, unexpected places readers find books, and the power of getting your own book into readers' hands through strategic indie book reviews.
06.02.26

From Metalworking to Pinot Noir: Finding Your Writing Voice

The album cover of Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days, featuring an illustrated portrait of a bearded man lying peacefully in lush green grass, evoking the soft, unhurried, organically developed voice a writer grows into over time
05.26.26

How to Research a Novel without Losing Your Mind—or Your Manuscript

A black-and-white still from the Twilight Zone episode "Time Enough at Last," showing a bespectacled man surrounded by towering stacks of books in a post-apocalyptic setting, representing the writer's fantasy of finally having unlimited time to read and write — and the reality that never quite arrives
05.19.26

Find Time to Write Even When You’re Bone-Tired

Henri Rousseau's The Sleeping Gypsy (1897), depicting a roaming musician asleep under a full moon while a lion looms watchfully nearby, evoking the precarious, dreamlike state of a writer trying to protect their creative life from the demands that circle in the night
05.13.26

3 Reasons Why Writers Stop and How to Get Back to Writing

A surreal illustrated figure of a wide-eyed child with pink cloud-like formations flanking their head against a pale blue background, evoking the foggy, disoriented inner world of a writer who has lost their words, their confidence, or their way back to the page
04.16.26

An Exaltation of the Soul: Short Story Writing Tips from the Conference Floor

A colorized vintage portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the founders of American short fiction, who described the form as an exaltation of the soul that cannot be long sustained