A critical step in learning how to write a book is in writing a book readers enjoy reading. Let’s talk about write-craft … that is, the craft of writing. Writing, like any other occupation or art, is a craft; it is learned. You’re likely to get better at it the more...
If you’ve been writing your book through the steps in this series, ‘How to Write a Book in 30 Days’, the chapters in your manuscript should be fleshed out and researched, each one of them complete in expressing its own complete sub-idea within the ‘big...
Your book doesn’t end at the end of your last chapter of content. You’ve got all the pieces, your theme, your big idea, all of your supporting chapters. You’ve laid them all out in logical sequence and you’ve come to the end – your book is complete … almost....
First, let’s clear the air of a little terminology. As the reader opens your book’s front cover, she may need to flip through several pages of introductory ‘stuff’ before coming to page one, chapter one. All of this ‘stuff’ is called ‘front matter,’ which, I guess, is...
