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

Who is your target audience?

You’re not really "confused" about that big quandary in your life or career, are you?

That's a 🚩🚩red flag🚩🚩: how literary agents and editors scan for signs of future trouble in our working relationships (and you can learn to do the same)

You're stuck. I'm stuck. Let's all stick together to get unstuck.

Happy NaNoWriMo! Here's why all of your strong opinions about NaNoWriMo are point-missing bullcrap. :)

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?”

What Mike Knew

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?!

Honesty, shmonesty

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

What to include in your query if you want an agent to pass on your project while inwardly longing for death

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?"

You should be ashamed!

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"

But when will the proposal be ready?

How I evaluate submissions

Are we being productive, or are we being compulsive?