By Sharon Bially | October 3, 2022 When my younger son was in the first grade, his teacher gave the class a writing assignment that consisted of finishing this sentence: “The most important thing about [insert your name] is____” My son, Alex, wrote, “The most important thing about Alex is that he tries really hard.”
By Sharon Bially | September 19, 2022 “My publisher told me that sales numbers the week of publication will make or break my book’s future. Let’s hurry and make sure as much news as possible goes live that week!” “With my publication date in 3 weeks, I’d like to start PR right away to make
By Sharon Bially | September 5, 2022 My love for writing is inseparable from a love of silence: the peaceful silence of words on a page with no other distractions. Nothing else vying for my attention, pounding in my ears, calling me out of my thoughts and my imagination. So it was hard enough for
One of the questions authors ask us nearly daily is, “what should I be doing to launch and promote my book, and when?” Like with everything in the publishing world, there’s no single “right time” or “right way.” But if your publication date is at least six months out and you’re the kind of person
Tell us about your book: BK: According to my family’s oral history, I am the great-great-great-great granddaughter of President James Madison and an enslaved woman named Corrine. The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family traces my family’s history from the antebellum south to present-day Virginia, Texas, and California and investigates this
We hope you’re still holding up alright in this” new normal.” To remind you of its sunnier side— and that yes, there is a sunnier side!—here is our next inspiring author story: Nurse and life coach Mary Odgers is author of Six Funerals and a Wedding—a memoir about losing her home and a lifetime of