Last week I went to pay some bills online. I looked at my account and realized there were charges listed that I had never made. I called the bank immediately. I went to the bank 10 business days later, and I still did not have a functioning ATM card, which meant, to get cash, I had to wait in a long, long line at the bank for a teller. Twenty minutes later, by the time I got to the head of the line, I was seriously annoyed. I expressed my annoyance to the teller. Her response? “Calm down, Ma’am.” Do you think this response calmed me down?

As the president and founder of the National Association of Women Writers, I have had the pleasure of networking with, collaborating with, and learning from book publishers on a daily basis for the last six years. It has been an ever-changing, exciting, and passionate journey

I spend a lot of time talking to authors about how to publish, and successfully publish, their books. But today I’d like to talk about when—and why—you should NOT publish your book. Read on.

What we think is absolutely fascinating about our life is rarely so for others. So, Rule #1 of the SP game, and part and parcel of the whole S&M discussion here is this: Write a Book People Will Want to Read.

They say that everyone has a book in them. Until recently, however, relatively few people ever put their book on paper. Major advances in publishing technology and easy access to this technology have changed all of that. Now, more and more people worldwide are producing books in all genres

I have published a children’s book entitled The Old Blue Whale with a subsidy press which came out in March of this year and I wanted to share my experience in hopes that you will not make the same mistake I made

A client emailed this week describing a book he is publishing on the current middle eastern crisis and asking my opinion. If you’ve ever contemplated doing a ‘hot’ book, you’ll know how tempting and compelling the thought can be. But there are dangers in doing a newsworthy book