The Importance of Critique Partners
It took me twelve years to finish my first novel. I had notes, character sketches, and whole conversations on yellow legal pages, bedside notebooks, and paper towels. I also had […]
It took me twelve years to finish my first novel. I had notes, character sketches, and whole conversations on yellow legal pages, bedside notebooks, and paper towels. I also had […]
Kelli Jo Ford is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Her debut novel-in-stories Crooked Hallelujah was long-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Story Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The […]
You’re writing a book. You want to sell a book. You need a website. Why and what should it do? WHY YOU NEED A WEBSITE You might independently or traditionally […]
Tracey Livesay is the 2021 Emma Award winner for Best Interracial Romance for Like Lovers Do, which was also named one of the 100 Best Fiction Books of 2020 by […]
Serious people take serious things seriously. And we’ve had plenty to be serious about over the past few years. For many of us, recent history has seemed like some combination […]
Matthew Wimberley grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He is the author of two collections of poetry, “Daniel Boone’s Window” (LSU, 2020) selected by Dave Smith for the Southern […]
It is not uncommon for authors to want to adapt their books into movies. Netflix alone will spend north of $13 million on new content this year, the bulk of […]
Lauren Camp is the author of five books, most recently Took House (Tupelo Press). Honors include the Dorset Prize and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Housatonic Book […]
Great news! We can trick ourselves into succeeding at our goals. Below are suggestions. Adopt a few and make them rules, because we all follow our own rules: we lock […]
Char McCargo Bah is the CEO/Owner of FindingThingsforU. She is retired from the federal government as a Senior Policy Writer and Researcher and holds undergraduate degrees in Urban Studies and African-American […]