By Helen Sedwick Suppose you come up with a shortcut to best-selling success. You analyze the top-selling dystopian series and write a book using similar settings, structure, characters, and themes. You don’t copy the original, merely incorporate generic elements not...
Learning about book publishing can be challenging when it’s all new to you. There’s a lot to absorb just to learn how all the pieces fit together. As in most fields, many people ask pretty much the same questions. That’s why I like to dig into my mailbag once in...
By Helen Sedwick What do Shakespeare and Jane Austen have in common? Their works have spawned countless remakes and retellings. Characters have been transported to New York tenements and distant dystopian planets. Stately manor houses have been transformed into...
I know that it’s challenging to navigate the waters of the book publishing business when it’s all new to you. There is so much to learn just to get an idea of how all the pieces fit together. And like in most fields, the same questions seem to repeat...
Well, that was an exciting ball game yesterday, wasn’t it? Today to help you cool back down, I’ve reached into the mailbag for some questions that have come in recently. Since most self-publishers run into the same kinds of questions as they get further...
