I’m here to talk a little shop on books this week. I mean, it is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), so bear with me if this is not necessarily your lane. However, I will say that most things are applicable to all different kinds of writing, if you drill into it a bit, but I digress. The moral of the story is that I’ve been working on drafting a new project this month and something important stuck out to me about the importance of knowing what the heck your book is actually about.

processAshley M. ColemanNovember 4, 2023writing, book publishing, writer adviceComment

the craft. the elusive query letter.

Query letters these days are mostly formally written emails or more often now even forms that you complete through a link provided by many agents. Back in the day, this used to be a physically mailed letter to have an agent consider your manuscript.

publishingAshley M. ColemanMay 21, 2023writing, book publishing, black authors, poc authorsComment

the craft. printing process.

After I get to a solid point in a draft, I have to bounce the story down, so to speak. Which in writing, is printing it out and having it bound for me to continue my revision process. This is after I’ve already done a ton of rounds of tweaking within the Word document on my computer.