Genre Hopping Most people don’t enjoy watching only one kind of movie, eating one type of food, or wearing the same clothes every day. Okay, maybe Zach likes that...

What is a Career Author (August 2020)? What does it mean to be a career author? This is not an easy question to answer and one that involves a...

Character Backstory We all have a story. The unique events that each of us experience build us and make us who we are. And the characters in your stories...

Hooking the Reader with Your First Chapter If you’re walking through the grocery store and an employee offers you a free sample of a new brand of cheese. You’re...

Writing Short Fiction In the indie community it’s often said that the best way to make money is to write novels, specifically in series of three or more books....

Sharpening the Saw: Doing the Things We Hate Doing As career authors or even part-time writers, we all have to do things we hate. In a perfect world, authors...

Launching an Amazon Bestselling Fiction Book in 2020 Indie authors often talk about the “gold rush” era of self-publishing when a smaller pool of authors and Amazon’s looser algorithms...

Talking with Tara from Kobo There’s value in “going wide” and one of the most trusted and thriving marketplaces is Kobo Writing Life. J. and Zach invite Tara Cremin...

Why You Need a Passion Project No matter how much you love being a career author, you will definitely need a break from the work at one time or...