by Kelly Notaras | May 10, 2019 | Love + Books, Tips, Writing
This weekend, we in North America are celebrating Mother’s Day. I think it’s a fairly normal thing to have complicated feels toward our mamas. We love them with all we have, but they are human, too. It’s a part of life. But the mother-child relationship can be...
by Kelly Notaras | May 3, 2019 | Love + Books, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
I have a confession to make: When I first dreamed of being an author, I wasn’t dreaming about changing my readers’ lives. I also wasn’t dreaming about what a great example I would be setting for my nieces, or how publishing my own book would make me that much more...
by Kelly Notaras | Apr 26, 2019 | Love + Books, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
The fact is, over 300,000 books are published every year. As original as each of us is, we aren’t that original in certain ways. As an aspiring author, you may bump up against this lack of originality in one particular—painful—way. During the research phase that is de...
by Kelly Notaras | Apr 17, 2019 | Coaching, Love + Books, Tips, Writing
Back in college I took a class on the great works of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Never had two more romantic figures entered my view. Starving artists just trying to find a clean, well-lighted place to write. Parisian nights and Barcelona days. Champagne and cigarettes;...
by Kelly Notaras | Apr 5, 2019 | Love + Books, Publishing, The Book Biz, Tips, Writing
Most of the aspiring authors I talk to want very much to be published by a traditional publisher right now. You may understand the feeling. (I certainly do!) And, there’s often a lot these hardworking, big-dreaming authors don’t yet know about how the biz works. Today...
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by Kelly Notaras | Mar 28, 2019 | Editing, Love + Books, Tips, Writing
“A complete first draft.” The phrase itself brings a burst of warmth to the aspiring author’s heart. A first draft is your ticket to the whole game. Without a first draft you can’t have a second draft, and without a second draft you can’t have a final draft, and...
