6 Tips for Kickstarter Success

Guest Post by J.M. Frey, award-winning author of Triptych, HERO is a Four Letter Word, The Dark Side of the Glass, and more. Many authors have used Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms to finance the production of their next book. But if you don’t know...

New Types of Author Events

This is for all you published authors out there who still think that scoring a book signing at a Barnes & Noble is the epitome of literary success. My thought is that the time and effort you and your publisher put into planning and executing these marketing events...

Hybridity and Shelving

Guest post by J.M. Frey Traditional publishing is great. Authors write books. Publishers publish books. Readers buy and read books. Yay, getting paid to write stories! But, when you walk into book stores, everything is… well… shelved. And those shelves are organized,...

Pitching at Conferences

Hey folks! It’s been a while since I’ve done a blog post, but I’ve been super busy in the two and a half months since I joined the agency. At the end of April I was at the Las Vegas Writers Conference, and only two weeks later I was in Atlanta for...

Let’s Get Steamy!

Two clients of mine, the amazing husband and wife duo of Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine, have the newest installment in their rip-roaring steampunk fantasy series (a Victorian X-Files), Dawn’s Early Light coming out on Tuesday. This is book three in their popular...

Jill’s Happy Author Protips

Hello everyone! Laurie invited me over to talk about anything related to publishing/writing, so I thought I’d share some tips for how to stay sane in this business. It’s not easy! I’ve been with Laurie almost 8 years, and I was first published with Harlequin in 2008....