Close your eyes for a moment and picture a world without books. A place where knowledge is passed down solely through word of mouth or by sitting directly under a thought leader. In this world, you’re searching for a specific piece of information. You’ve asked several people you believed knew the story, but their accounts…
Five Reasons Why You Won’t Succeed As an Author. These are key reasons why many authors fail. You really want to read this carefully. In my experience as a publisher, I’ve observed both successful and unsuccessful authors. Over the years, I’ve identified five key reasons why many authors don’t succeed. There are certainly more, but…
5 You recently wrote a book on gardening. During your marketing campaigns, you focused your efforts on business executives, assuming they had the purchasing power to buy your book and the resources to apply your insights. But three months in, you’ve seen little to no spike in sales. The issue here isn’t the quality of…
You decide to write a book. You lay out your tools—notebook, pen, and laptop—on your writing desk and realize that you’re at a loss for where to begin. You decide that maybe today’s not your day and pack up your things for another time. As your schedule would have it, that day never comes, and…
You’re seated in your writing space with a notebook, laptop, and a pen before you. You power on the laptop, open a new page, and you’re set to begin writing. You title the write-up, and after that, it feels as though someone sucked your mind clean of ideas. No matter how hard you rack your…
Are you feeling stuck in a writing rut? It happens to the best of us. Even seasoned writers sometimes find themselves staring at a blank page, unsure of how to get started. That’s where writing prompts come in handy. These ideas of inspiration can ignite your creativity and get your words flowing. In this article,…
Setting my feet on the ground that day was the end of it all. Maybe if I had admitted earlier that I’m a busy person, things would have ended up differently. I did my morning rituals and planned out my day in my journal with writing being the top on the list. But the day…
