Congratulations to author and literary agent Sera Rivers, who just signed with Katie Shea Boutillier of Donald Maass Literary for her YA...

I first met Melissa during KissPitch, which is a writing mentoring contest where writers complete for mentorship from agented or...

Big news!!! I'm thrilled to announce my books are now represented by Eva Scalzo of Speilburg Literary Agency. In fact, I am...DOUBLE...

On February 22 at 3pm EST, I've been invited to present a webinar on ReedsyLive about "How to Write Romance that Stands Out." Tickets are...

This retreat was an absolutely fantastic experience! I presented on Mental Health for Writers, facilitated discussions on Finding Hope...

When a reader first finds your book, they have only TWO crucial pieces of information that can hook them: your cover and your title. If it's spine out, narrow that down to just the title. Unfortunately, a good title is hard to find--how do you encapsulate 100,000 words or so in less than five? For all of my books, I either knew the best title instantly...or had to go through dozens of rounds of hard trial and error to find something that works. Fortunately, since working with

A hook is what sells a book. I used to be terrible at creating hooks, at the beginning of my career. I had a tendency to write very...

I first met Eagan Daniels during PitchWars 2018. This (now closed) contest was for querying authors who had a polished manuscript and...

Congratulations to William Brashears, who signed with Lori Galvin from Aevitas Creative Management for his crime fiction manuscript,...

Congratulations to Joe Cancelmo, who has just signed with Heliotrope Books to publish his novel, Won’t Forget the Motor City, an upmarket...

Congratulations to Christy Swift, who just signed with Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong of the Purcell Agency for her romantic comedy manuscript...

Suspense techniques aren’t just for the stabby books, my friends! Do you wish you could add suspense to your novel? Want to know how to...