Contests are not all about winning or not winning—they’re about impartial feedback.

Thank you for subscribing to my website! As a developmental and copy editor, I’ve learned a lot of dos and don’ts in my line of work. Here are my 5 fabulous favorites.

Now that you have ARCs at your disposal, you can reach out to authors in your genre and ask them to give you a blurb for your cover or praise page.

Metadata is not the name of the latest superhero to hit the streets. It’s the thing that helps customers find your book.

The real fun begins with Advanced Reader Copies. Use them to build buzz for your book.

Instead of hiring someone to design the interior pages of my book, I did it myself. Here’s what I learned.

Want to create intrigue? A successful title requires boxes to be checked.

The three layers of the Review Pyramid will help you reach your readers.

Having a book cover made is a major milestone in the self-publishing process. This is where the magic starts to happen.

As you build your website, keep this in mind: it’s not all about you.

We live in a world where people google all day long. If they come across you and/or your book, and they’d like to know more, they’re going to google you—and that’s your opportunity to make a connection with them.

If you are thinking about self-publishing, one of the first things you must do is determine which genre your book belongs in.

Before you publish your book, you must consider everything very carefully: your book title, your genre, even your name.

The editorial process is a long and complex one in which the manuscript is passed back and forth between a writer and her editors. Read on for a detailed explanation of the different types of editing and where they stand in the overall scheme of things.

You’re a writer, and if you want to publish, you need a manuscript. As a matter of fact, nothing is more important than your manuscript, and you must pour all of your creative energy into it before you so much as dip a toe into the pool of decisions that comes with self-publishing.

How did it happen? How did I go from being dead set against self-publishing to completely excited about the prospect of self-publishing? It was not a quick turn-around, I’ll tell you that much.