Awful Truths

A Column by Dale Ketcham
While spring cleaning my bookshelves I came across a fabulously depressing book entitled: THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT PUBLISHING: Why they always reject your manuscript–and what you can do about it. The author, John Boswell (co-author of What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School), speaks from his experience as a [...]

Marketing an Ebook By Darrel Hill

Marketing an ebook can be a challenge without the right information and tools. Ebooks are attractive to marketers because they offer the highest sales commission of any other affiliate product. When marketing a physical affiliate product, you can expect to earn between 4 and 6 % commission. But marketing an ebook can bring in as [...]

How to Write Articles – 3 Tips to Write Interesting Articles That People Want to Read By Michael Lee

Learning how to write interesting articles is extremely important. This separates you from the hundreds of other writers out there running around with the same old ideas and concepts. Being a writer demands that you at least try to be original and witty.
In this article, you’ll find out just how to write interesting articles that [...]

Joyce Carol Oates – On Writing Characters

A life-changing moment

Everyone loves a good “Call” story and I’m no different. My own is still etched on my brain and will remain so until I die. It was the most fabulous day of my life (aside from the birth of my children, of course). It was early in the morning in March 2006 and I was [...]

Story Tips from the BIG Screen Introduction – Meet Jaxine Daniels

Once upon a time, in a tiny hamlet in the high mountains, there was a Captain with eight children and a nanny who sang lovely songs and created exquisite garments from draperies. No wait – different mountains. Sorry.
Once upon a time, in a tiny hamlet in the high mountains of COLORADO – yeah, that’s the [...]

IN DEFENSE OF THE MALIGNED “WAS”

by Lois Winston
Debunking a grammar myth
In my former life as a Contest Diva, I often received similar comments from judges. They’d circle every “was” in the entry and write in large capital letters — PASSIVE VOICE. Somewhere at some time in some RWA chapter or national workshop, someone told these judges, as well as many [...]

Two-page Synopsis Example

Please remeber that this work is copyrighted by the author and she has put a lot of hard work into it. It’s listed here for example purposes only.
An Honest Day’s Work
by Dale Ketcham
Drew Mannaker is a commercial real estate shark with questionable scruples. For years he’s been after land between two larger parcels he’d managed [...]

Inspiration 1-14

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~Joseph Addison

How to Write a Novel Podcast

We’ve mentioned Grammar Girl on CataU before. If you’re looking for grammar tips, I highly recommend her site. You can listen to podcasts and read transcripts about all sorts of little grammar issues.
This podcast is about writing a novel so I thought I’d point it out and pass it along.

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