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How to turn your life into a memoir

December 5, 2017 by Nathan Bransford 10 Comments

Nathan here! Rebecca S. Ramsey is a former client of mine who is the author of several great memoirs, including French By Heart and her latest, The Holy Éclair. She has an incredible gift at turning real life into compelling and funny memoirs. Here’s a guest post on just that! Within days after moving our young family to […]

7 things to consider before hiring a career coach

June 29, 2017 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

Nathan here! So much is required of authors these days, everything from writing the darn thing to making sure your book is being marketed to managing your social media presence. To be a successful author in this landscape, you have to have an entrepreneurial mindset, which doesn’t always come perfectly naturally to creative types. My […]

Want to finish your novel? Try talking to yourself

November 2, 2016 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

Nathan here! Kendra Levin is an Executive Editor at Penguin, a life coach for writers, and the author of the recently-published The Hero Is You, a self-help book for writers on the writing journey out now! Visit her at kendracoaching.com and follow her @kendralevin on Twitter. Enjoy! When you’re a writer, words are everything. They’re […]

How not to write a novel

January 11, 2016 by Nathan Bransford 11 Comments

Nathan here. I first met my friend Julia Forster a decade ago when we were assistants to two US and UK agents who worked closely together. She’s now an accomplished author, and her novel What a Way to Go was published on Thursday by Atlantic Books in the UK. I invited her to write a guest […]

Five things Melissa Grey learned while writing The Girl at Midnight

April 2, 2015 by Nathan Bransford 5 Comments

Nathan here! My friend Melissa Grey’s new novel The Girl at Midnight will be published on April 28th, and it’s already received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. I invited her to write a guest post on her experiences writing her debut novel. Enjoy! Writing and then subsequently publishing a book is a long, alternately […]

Guest post (and giveaway!) – How and when to revise your manuscript

September 9, 2014 by Nathan Bransford 24 Comments

Nathan here! I’m very pleased to have a guest post today by David Zeltser, whose debut novel LUG is going on sale today! Better yet, we’re giving away three signed copies of LUG! All you have to do is leave a comment asking to be entered (non-anonymously please!), and we’ll choose three random winners. Here’s David’s […]