Expand Your Hobby into a Career by Julie Morris + Podcast

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Do you have a hobby you wish was your career?

Authors! Novelists can be anyone we want to be!

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How do you re-imagine yourself?...

How I Got Published (Big Time) by Lance Akiyama

Lance Akiyama, author of "Duct Tape Engineer" and more.

How does an author get their book published by a big company, as opposed to doing it on their own? Hard work and good fortune figured into how a big-time publisher of how-to books reached out to Lance Akiyama. Together, they’ve put out four books (including a revised version of one) by him about how… Continue reading How I Got Published (Big Time) by Lance Akiyama

7 Tips for Authors by Rhiannon

Author/blogger Rhiannon Brunner with her cat, Carry (big sister of kitten Maze).

Want to write and publish a book? Blogger Rhiannon Brunner (who has also contributed to HBT here) has written and self-published many of them! A resident of Vienna, Austria, she writes about whatever interests her. Her books are in German. Soon she'll translate them into English. Here she encourages us all... 7 Tips for Authors by Rhiannon… Continue reading 7 Tips for Authors by Rhiannon

Hope for Novelists and Other Writers by da-AL

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Do you have an elevator speech? Book writers are told that they need an 'elevator speech' -- a one-minute pitch for when they inadvertently meet their star-maker. It's also useful for talking about one's book with everyone else. Theoretically, that is. My elevator speech rarely gets past the first floor. But I love my books,… Continue reading Hope for Novelists and Other Writers by da-AL