You want to capture your family history. That’s great! But where do you start?

Most people automatically think of a book. It’s the default. But a book has its limitations: difficulty...

Landing a TEDx talk is one of the best speaking opportunities for thought leaders.

From the TEDx stage, speakers can inspire and influence a broader audience, while networking and connecting with...

“How can my book be part of a larger whole?”

It’s the question Ryan Frederick, author of Right Place, Right Time: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of...

“The world is changing all the time. We can’t cling to one way of doing things,” Anne Janzer, thought leader and author of The Writer’s Voice, says.

Gone are the days of...

“You should write a book!”

Most thoughts leaders have heard this at least once in their life. It’s the go-to format for content.

But is a book the best format for your content?

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“You can’t republish your Master’s thesis.”

It’s one piece of advice Kristin Keffeler, author of The Myth of the Silver Spoon, received from an editor. It’s...

A good book proposal is key to landing a book deal.

It’s a business plan for your book.

It helps your book stay focused on its main idea (its thesis).

It helps you determine where your book...

To become a nonfiction bestselling author, it all comes down to numbers.

To make the New York Times Best Seller list, you need to sell 5,000 to 10,000 copies in a week.

To make The Wall Street...

Scenes are the building blocks to good storytelling.

But too many new writers struggle to conceptualize their story in scenes. They think a scene is a dinner table conversation. Or a mere stroll...

One of the most common questions we receive from fiction writers is “How do I plot my book?”

It’s the question that dominates writing conferences and a simple Google search...

Every book needs a developmental edit. Even professional writers do. In fact, professional writers crave developmental editing, because they know they don’t know it all.

But too many new...

Commercially viable memoirs are akin to novels. They engage the reader through storytelling techniques.

But new memoirists struggle to write an engaging story. They spend too much time inside...