Getting Published

Why Launch Strategy Matters Your book is finished. Edited. Covered. Ready. Now what? You could just publish it and hope for the best. Some authors...

The Most Valuable Marketing Asset You’ll Build Social media algorithms change. Platforms rise and fall. But your email list? That’s yours. Every subscriber chose to...

Where the Readers Are Traditional book discovery—browsing bookstore shelves, reading newspaper reviews—has given way to social discovery. Readers find their next favorite book through online...

The Platform Question “Do you have a platform?” It’s one of the first questions agents ask about nonfiction proposals—and increasingly, it matters for fiction too....

The Reality of Author Marketing Budgets You’ve finished your book. Now you need readers who know it exists. Most authors have $500 or less. Here’s...

The Search for Your Champion Finding the right literary agent is like dating—except with higher stakes and worse odds. You’re looking for someone who loves...

The Art of Compression You’ve spent years writing an 80,000-word novel. Now someone wants it in 500 words—including the ending. Welcome to synopsis writing: the...

The One-Page Sales Pitch Your novel took two years to write. Your query letter needs to sell it in about 250 words—roughly one minute of...

The Feedback You Actually Need You’ve finished your manuscript. Your mother loves it. Your spouse says it’s great. Your best friend thinks you’re definitely getting...

At some point, nearly every aspiring author faces the same question: traditional publishing or self-publishing? There’s no universally right answer. Each path offers distinct advantages...