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When Should an Author Be Thinking of Their Readers?
Books are a collaboration with agents, editors, publishers, and book sellers. But most of all, you're collaborating with readers...

Martha Chargot
Nov 1, 20223 min read


Career or Hobby & Five Other Choices Writers Must Make
There are many trade-offs to being a career author. Whether or not they’re worth it is up to you to decide, but here are five to consider...

Martha Chargot
Oct 25, 20224 min read


Pros and Cons of Self-Editing Your Novel
Here are a few things to look out for and others to get excited about if you're thinking about DIYing your novel's edit...

Martha Chargot
Oct 11, 20223 min read


5 Ways Writing is Like Therapy
How many times have you heard someone say that their art is their therapy? It’s so common that it has become a cliché...

Martha Chargot
Oct 4, 20223 min read


5 Questions You Shouldn’t Be Asking Your Beta Readers
We’ve written about what we think should be in your beta reading questionnaire, but every author and every project is different...

Martha Chargot
Sep 20, 20224 min read


5 Ways a Developmental Edit Can Be an Investment in Your Authorial Career
As an author, you have two paths to publishing, and both require a ton of hard work by yourself as well as some luck and blind faith...

Martha Chargot
Sep 6, 20223 min read


Beta Readers v. Developmental Editor: Which is Right for You?
Drafting is usually done alone, but everything that comes after can be greatly benefitted from having a development team...

Martha Chargot
Aug 9, 20223 min read


What Authors Need to Know About the Simon & Schuster Acquisition
The Biden Administration is arguing in court as this blog is being published to argue that this merger would violate anti-trust laws...

Martha Chargot
Aug 2, 20225 min read
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