Sitemap - 2021 - How to Glow in the Dark
Perfectionism might strangle your writing career. Here's why. [holiday rerun post]
Happy 2nd birthday, Neon Literary!
An A to Z of publishing tips that are useful but too short for me to pad out into a whole newsletter
You’re not really "confused" about that big quandary in your life or career, are you?
You're stuck. I'm stuck. Let's all stick together to get unstuck.
You’re getting two “Glow” posts next week
Readers' tastes are changing. Are you changing with them?
Some easy ways to tell when your book (probably) isn't ready for submission
If you want to be popular in publishing, ask yourself: what would Keanu Reeves do?
Agents and editors don’t want to know what your book is “about.” We want to know what it *does.*
Q and A Edition: please give me the operating instructions for publishing success
What authors wish they'd known about publishing a book during a pandemic
How to have difficult career-related conversations without sounding like a huge dick
How books become movies and TV shows
Frequent Author Questions: "Oh God Oh God I'm getting vicious criticism on the internet. Help?”
Your literary agent is your business partner, not your boss or your employee.
Common Author Freakouts, Part 6: Immediately After You Say "Yes" to a Book Deal
On writing and publishing books when you have little kids
Common Author Freakouts, Part 5: But What About My Book Party?
Common Author Freakouts, Part 4: Post-Publication Depression and Anxiety
RERUN POST: An Elaborate Scattergram of What Really Matters for a Book's Success
Common Author Freakouts, Part 3: When You Have to Stop Making Changes to the Manuscript
Common Author Freakouts, Part 2: Toward the End of the Editorial Development Process
Common Author Freakouts, Part 1: One to Two Months Before the Book Publishes
How to send effective publishing-related emails in 2021
What is this marketing and PR questionnaire they want me to fill out?!
On arrogance and humility in the rock tumbler of our publishing life
Want more praise and attention, authors? Try self-parenting
Money, money, money: a primer on book deal finances and what to expect from them
A guide to foreign rights, or: gutentag, uncertainty
Q and A #3: "Who am I, anyway?"
The networking habits of successful writers
If you really want a book deal, make it your #3 priority
Other people have had (and will have!) "your" ideas, and that's okay
What literary agents and authors misunderstand about each other
On learning to love that in-between time
Might I suggest taking things even *more* slowly?
What are you killing when you're "killing it?"
The art and science of a good sample chapter
How to use social media as an author
What has to happen before you can be a "good author"