We’re All Struggling
We’re all struggling in this craziness, but one thing is sure, we are writers! We push on and don’t…
August 25, 2020We’re all struggling in this craziness, but one thing is sure, we are writers! We push on and don’t…
August 25, 2020Recently I met one of my long-term friends, a publisher of a well-known book company. Speaking about how I…
July 25, 2020Do you procrastinate when it comes to creating a book proposal? You aren’t alone and it is common among…
May 25, 2020Well, here we are. Or … here I am, and there you are. We’re social distancing. This is new…
April 25, 2020The Christian Authors Network’s innovative Crown Awards celebrate excellence in Christian Media and Marketing. Purpose: To recognize, educate, and…
April 18, 2020Throughout this series I’ve emphasized one main point—increasing your reach is vital to your writing career. I’ve also shared…
April 12, 2020From reading many submissions, I’ve seen numerous misspellings of my first and last name. This small but significant mistake…
March 25, 2020The Christian Authors Network’s innovative Crown Awards celebrate excellence in Christian Media and Marketing. Purpose: To recognize, educate, and…
March 18, 2020Every indie author knows that standing out from the crowd is an uphill battle. And, like most battles, it…
March 12, 2020I remember those days of whining to myself. “But it’s good. Everybody says so, especially all my friends and…
February 25, 2020The Christian Authors Network’s innovative Crown Awards celebrate excellence in Christian Media and Marketing. Purpose: To recognize, educate, and…
February 18, 2020“Ah! I’ve had too many sales!” said no author ever. The truth is, sales are directly tied to what…
February 12, 2020A New Year always brings a chance to start over and begin in a new direction. This year (2020)…
January 25, 2020In my last article, I introduced the idea of an author creating a brand personality and outlined three ways…
January 12, 2020We’ve written the book, isn’t that enough? Now they want us to write a query, a pitch, a proposal,…
December 25, 2019From my experience in publishing, editors and agents are often slow to respond to submissions. This time lag…
November 25, 2019A few days ago, my wife returned from the grocery store with two different brands of coffee: Lavazza and…
November 12, 2019Indie authors often want to know how to build a writing brand. There are actually two sides of being…
October 12, 2019I wrote about fifty books with traditional publishers, including two proposals that got six figure advances—before I began working…
July 25, 2019The tension hung in the air so thick it felt like you could cut it with a knife. I…
May 25, 2019Cherrilynn Bisbano is an award-winning writer. She founded The Write Proposal after reading hundreds of book proposals with avoidable…
April 25, 2019When writers take personality tests, the majority are introverts. They prefer to write more articles or books instead of…
February 25, 2019We all know how important Amazon when it comes to selling our books. Perhaps we don’t know just how…
February 10, 2019“What’s the difference between a fiction book proposal and non-fiction?” “Do I need the illustrations when I submit my…
January 25, 2019If you are an author, a human being writing for other human beings, you have been blessed with a…
January 12, 2019