by Stephanie Morrill | Oct 7, 2019 | Creativity, Story Ideas, Writing Exercise
I realized recently that I have a lot of story ideas that I dismiss immediately. I’ll feel a bit of curiosity about a topic or a question, I’ll allow myself about 30 seconds to ponder “What if?” but then I start shutting the idea down with...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 30, 2019 | Author Life, Book Proposals, Writing As A Business
Since we talked about hook sentences last week, it only seemed natural to address back-cover copy today. Like a hook sentence, your back-cover copy is a tool for selling your book. If you are traditionally publishing, this copy sells your book first to agents and...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 23, 2019 | Book Proposals, Getting Published, Marketing, Writing As A Business
One of the questions that always makes me squirm is, “What’s your book about?” Cue panic and stammering! But I’ve become much better in the last few years as I’ve worked on how to answer this even before I write the book. In the...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 16, 2019 | Author Life, Book Proposals
Once upon a time, I imagined those paragraphs about authors that I read on the back of books were written by people at the publishing house or assistants. If you’re a Big Deal Author, maybe you do have people who write those for you, but every single published...
by Stephanie Morrill | Sep 9, 2019 | Author Life, Getting Published, Self-Publishing
Two weeks ago, I gave an overview of the traditional publishing process, and today I’ll focus on self-publishing, also called indie publishing. I don’t consider myself a self-publishing expert at all, but I did choose indie over traditional for three of my...
