Is your Muse making you dance a merry path or is she sitting with you getting all the pages written? Are you? We are writers, so we must write daily. Not practising our craft is an insult to the craft, plus how are we going to improve if we do not work on it? It’s …
The New Year is finally here and most of us, including me, have got the #NewYearNewMe out of our systems. Even though I make no assurances and promises to myself or others for the actions and changes to my writing that the new year will bring, I try to follow a writing goal that should …
I have written this blog post in my mind so many times that I’ve lost count over the past months, so I finally dictated the post on my smartphone – anything to get the creative flow going. It’s been in the drafts with several rounds of edits and multiple reads this whole month of September …
If you are looking for insights into editing nonfiction and academic editing, then Anupam Choudhury is your man. I met him in New Delhi last year and further in our Indian Copyeditors Forum group. I am impressed with his knowledge, skills, and ability to solve problems and support others. Anupam is humble, hardworking with a …
Supporting writers and authors in their journey to publishing that elusive book are the editors. Silent folks that work behind the scenes to ensure the best copy possible. The writing process is both easy and complicated. The stories that an author writes are fine-tuned by an editor, but finding the right editor can be a …
I feature an author interview on the blog after a long time. Things have been brewing and stalling but it’s all going to work out. I firmly believe all progress is good progress and I have great things planned. If you are an author and wish to be featured for an interview on the blog, …
Sundari Venkatraman is the most prolific author in the world of Indie publishing in India. She is the woman with more than 31 titles in her name. She had written romances and kidlit and done justice to both genres. I have read many of her books but she writes faster than what I can read and …
ABOUT THE BOOK – How to Make and Publish a Children’s Picture Book: How I created and promoted my picture book series by Werner Stejskal How I create and promote my own picture book series – This booklet is all about my experiences on the long journey of publishing my picture book series and becoming …