By Jenny Hansen From our earliest moments, most writers are avid readers. We devour books – for story, for Craft, for new worlds and new ideas. We have To Be Read piles (TBR for short) that are taller than small children. Our favorite authors and characters become our friends. I don’t know if we become […]

Beta readers bumped my manuscript from okay to publishable. What did these beta readers do?

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about using Microsoft Excel efficiently. You learned some fun finesse tools for moving around the program and laying out data. Today, we’re going to get to the nitty-gritty part of Excel. We’re basically going to “just skip to the good stuff.” What is the most common use […]

Writers in the Storm is pleased to introduce you to Sherry Thomas. We were lucky to hear Sherry speak at an OCC RWA monthly meeting this fall and even luckier when she agreed to share her writing acumen  with us. by Sherry Thomas A detail for me isn’t the color of the wall, the precise […]

We welcome back contributing guest, Susan Spann, with Part 3 of her Author Business Plans series.  If you missed  Part 1 or Part 2, they're just a click away. by Susan Spann Today we continue our trek through Author Business Plans with a look at Part 3: Marketing. The business plan section on Marketing Strategies […]