by Troy Lambert | May 15, 2017 | Advice for Authors, Authorpreneur, Writing as a Business Series
It scares some people that in many parts of the writing industry, artists and writers work without contracts: essentially with no safety net: you have paid someone to perform a service (or they have paid you) with no legal contract in place. However, this is not...
by Troy Lambert | May 8, 2017 | Advice for Authors, Authorpreneur, Business Advice, Writing as a Business Series
Here is the point where you are at the end of your free resources. It’s time to bring in the professionals. You’re going to need to hire several, and we will cover over the next few posts how to do find and choose them, how to hire and pay them, and how to avoid...
by Troy Lambert | Apr 30, 2017 | Advice for Authors, Authorpreneur, Business Advice, Writing as a Business Series
Business for writers is a complicated topic, and so far we have covered several things, mostly related to writing, with brief notes on writer’s block (not allowed) and self-editing (does not work), but there is a step we must cover before we move on to the next step,...
by Troy Lambert | Apr 14, 2017 | Advice for Authors, Authorpreneur, Business Advice, Opinion
So many writers never reach even this point in production, or worse, they skip it. They get stuck on writing and never finish. But if you are among the lucky few who finish a story, you must move on to editing. This post is titled self-editing, but before we even get...
by Troy Lambert | Feb 20, 2017 | Advice for Authors, Opinion
Double commas. Simple typos. A word that is not misspelled, per se, but is just in the wrong place. Software grammar checkers like Grammarly are getting better all the time, but we as humans keep thinking of ways to trip them up. Microsoft Word is even getting better...
