Craft

Career authors can make their books into better audiobooks if they think like listeners instead of readers.

Are your characters talking too much? Can a gesture, a look, or an action take the place of some of that chit-chat?

Trust me, though a one-off book can often be made into a series (and sometimes beautifully!) writing a standalone and writing a series are two different things. Are you writing a series or a standalone?

Paula Munier—agent, writing teacher, and debut novelist—talks to Career Authors about the challenges of writing a series featuring a dog as a main characters, the challenges of tackling the second book, and how life as a military brat affects the way she writes setting.

According to award winning author Danielle Girard, fully realized characters are key to creating an action-packed, page-turning plot.