Running A Writing Business In The Age of AI (Early 2025 Edition) Note to start: this whole series is prefaced mostly with the acknowledgement that we’re in early 2025 as I write this and who knows where the world is going. As per yesterday’s post, I’ve got a few ideas about possible threats and opportunities,…
Blogging Isn’t High ROI Until It Is I went through a weird period between 2016-2018 where people referred to me as “a blogger.” Which was kind of weird, but I suppose it’s an interesting relic of the times; you could be a professional blogger in that time period, I had a semi-popular blog, and in…
Are Pen Names CREEPY? I spoke with a guy yesterday who has acted as an unofficial mentor to me regarding the whole “becoming a professional author” thing. It turns out he got himself in hot water over the past couple of months. Not once, but twice. The first time, he published a ghostwritten book on…
I was browsing the internet the other day and came upon an interesting discussion about ghostwriting. An author questioned ghostwriting, and rightly pointed out that authors – long term – would be better off not being ghostwriters. Instead, they should write their own books, market them and build their own brand. Is this good advice?…
Yesterday I answered a question by reader Al on creating niche sites. I’m back again to answer more questions from Al. This time on publishing as an author. (The focus is on fiction, but it’ll work for anything where you sell books.) Al commented on this post from way back in 2015. Times change, and…
The Problem With Traditional Publishing – Specifically Agents Over on Twitter, I saw fellow copywriter and friend of the blog Lynn Swayze had retweeted a thread on traditional publishing. Specifically, it was an agent’s perspective on why people failed to find representation when it came to getting their book published. The thread was good –…
How To Write Quickly And Easily In Five Simple Steps It’s 5pm on the 21st December 2017. I’ve decided I want to take the next week off for Christmas. Instead of writing just one article for this website, I’m going to write and schedule six this evening. Am I daunted by this challenge? No. That’s…
Why You Need A Publishing Schedule in 2018 We’re almost at the New Year and that means big plans, big moves and all of us little pirates trying to stay afloat in 2018 with our businesses. Hopefully, there’ll be adventures and chests full of gold too, but who knows. The important point to this pirate…
Book Writing Process Part Two: Things I Forgot Last Time Yesterday I wrote about my current book writing formula. As with any list, the minute you think you’ve finished, you think of some more ideas that you should have included. This article is filled with a couple of things that I forgot to include in…
Why Writing Books Is An Incredible Investment For some reason, secondary school didn’t completely kill my interest in arithmetic. This article is going to be a basic guide to the arithmetic of being a writer. A lot of people think that you have to starve if you’re a writer. A lot of people assume that…