It’s not the first time you felt stymied as a writer.
It happens. You’re looking at a sentence you wrote and thinking, “Do you put a comma before so?”
Is so a coordinating conjunction? Is it a subordinating conjunction? Is it an adverb?
The short answer is, “Sure. It can be any of those things.” But until you see when and how, knowing that doesn’t help much.
Once you know the rules described in this post, though, say goodbye to confusion.
You won’t miss it.
You’re ready to interview an author for your blog.
Or maybe you’ve started a podcast and are wondering how to interview an author for it?
We’re here to help — both with preparing for the interview and with making your list of author interview questions.
As authors with an insatiable appetite for authentic stories, we created this post to answer the question, “What are good questions to ask an author about a book?”
There are loads of questions you could ask.
But these will make the interview more enjoyable for you and your guests.
For authors, these questions can help prepare you for interviews and know what to expect when you’re called on to talk about your work.
Do you and your love partner make daily efforts to strengthen and improve your relationship?
If not, you might want to pay attention because the quality of your love relationship determines your overall happiness and even your health.
All couples, whether married or dating, straight or gay, should consciously take action to keep their relationship strong and healthy for the long haul.
One valuable way to do this is by reading books for couples or marriage books offering concrete steps to enhance the love, trust, respect, and intimacy between you. R
eading together could be a great date night idea that could enhance conversation and build closeness.
What’s so important about knowing the genres of books?
Well, if you’re an author with a work in progress, you’ll want to know its genre to ensure your ideal readers find and read it.
List a science fiction novel as a paranormal romance, for example, and you’ll likely end up with a flurry of negative reviews. No one wants that.
Readers of specific book genres have expectations you’ll want to meet if you want them to enjoy your book and recommend it to others.
You also want readers to see your book’s cover and know it’s the genre they want.
So, knowing your book’s genre not only helps with marketing. It can make all the difference in your writing career.
You’ve heard about government grants for writers, but you don’t know where to find them or whether you even qualify for any of them.
True, some of them are for residents of a specific state. And some are for applicants of a specific demographic.
But plenty of them only require that you submit high-quality work for their consideration. And the need-based ones don’t even require that.
To help you find the best grant options for you, we’ve collected 23 of the best grants for writers living in the United States.
You’ve spent weeks writing, rewriting, and polishing your manuscript.
Now, you have it in book form — thoroughly edited, artfully formatted, and wrapped in a gorgeous cover.
Because you’ve chosen to self-publish.
And while thousands of self-published authors sell 300 or fewer copies of their books, you know hundreds sell them in the thousands, because they’ve learned how to market them.
You intend to be one of those authors, and you’re doing your homework.
Because we’re all about successful self-publishing, we’ve created this detailed list of the 19 best self-publishing companies.
Read on to learn what you need to know — including why you should self-publish in the first place.
Do you know the essential parts of a story — or why they’re essential?
Think back to the last story you read (or listened to) that captured your imagination and held onto it to the end.
Chances are the story elements described in this article were responsible for that.
And you can probably point to at least one of them and remember how that element in the story took hold of you.
But what are the elements of a compelling story?
And how do you put them together to create one of your own?