Once you’ve decided whether your podcast will be in an interview or topic format, the next question is: How frequently should you publis...

Writing 3,000 words a day is hard. I can just imagine Dean Wesley Smith shaking his head saying, "You think writing three hours a d...

Well, not really. It's L.L. Barkat's question. Jane Friedman--web editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review and blogger extraordin...

Sometimes writers email me and ask how often they should blog, or what they should blog about, or how long their blog posts should be, an...

A while ago I wrote an article entitled: How To Build A Platform: Why Every Writer Needs A Website , in which I argued that just having a...

1. What's your angle? Since you're reading this chances are you're going to blog about writing. That's terrific! There a...

Jane Friedman has published a terrific blog post today about whether writers should host their own blog or go through a free service lik...

I was surfing the electronic currents of the web when I chanced upon Elisabeth Spann Craig's Twylah page. It looks incredible! I sig...

Many people start blogs to market books, but lately I've been hearing about it the other way round, using a book to market a blog. ...

This is a debate I've been having with myself for some time. On the one hand, I don't want to alienate any of you. On the other h...

Jane Friedman has a great post on how you can set up email subscriptions to your blog and why you would want to. If you have a blog and hav...

Remember the food pyramid? Did you know that it can help a person not only have a healthy body but also a healthy blog? Suitably tweaked, of...

From Jim C. Hines: Here’s the thing. Blogging is basically self-publishing, with all of the advantages and disadvantages that come with it....

I found a great post over on Wordpress.com called, "Getting more views and Traffic". The author's points are what my Grams wo...

I love Joel Friedlander's blog , and posts like this are why: 19 Ways to Get More Readers for Your Blog . 1. Write more often —if ...

The answer, of course, depends on you, on how much time you have available and, most of all, on what you want. I began to blog a few months ...

I'm always trying to write a better blog post so when I looked at The Book Designer and saw the article Writers’ Blogs: 5 Essentials ...

The first book I read by Lawrence Block was, " Telling Lies for Fun and Profit ."  It was great!  I highly recommend it, not onl...