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Part encouraging and part cautionary, author Kim Catanzarite lays out everything you can expect to change in your life when you self-publishing your novel.

Flaws in characters make them feel more real and authentic, but it’s important that their flaws don’t make readers root against them. Here, author Danielle Owen-Jones offers eight tips to help make an unlikable character likable.

Pitch anxiety is very real for all writers. Here, co-authors Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis offer three ways to manage your pitch panic.

WD competition judge AJ Wells shares what was different, unique, and special about this years best self-published books.

While it may be tempting to jump in and hire an editor the moment youre ready, its important to cross a few more things off your list first. Let editor and writer Tiffany Yates Martin walk you through the questions you should ask before hiring a developmental editor.

The Writers Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This weeks writing mistake is oversharing in self-help writing.

In the second of a three-post series on the business of self-publishing, AJ Wells shares his experience of reading hundreds of self-published books, as well as tips and advice from other indie authors on how to find and engage with their audience as they venture into self-publishing.

The Writers Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This weeks writing mistake is undermining your expertise in self-help writing.

Editorial road-mapping begins with a challenge of willpower and ends with a battle-plan for transforming your manuscript into the book you dreamed it could be. Let editor Kris Spisak give you that map!

Writing Mistakes Writers Make: Omitting Sensory Details The Writers Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This weeks writing mistake writers make is omitting sensory details. Author: May 21, 2021 Everyone makes mistakes—even writers—but thats okay because each mistake is a great learning opportunity. The Writers Digest team has witnessed many mistakes over the year...