Choosing your “author name” can be a very big deal! For me, it brought up all the difficult “Who am I?” and “How do I want the world to know me?” questions. It is a special opportunity to define yourself and therefore I do not believe it is something that should be taken lightly. In this article I outline the five main factors I considered when choosing my author name, walking you through my own personal example.
There are so many resources out there for new authors, which is great, but it can quickly get overwhelming. In this post I outline ten of the books, blogs, and website that have been invaluable to me as I got started with my writing career. I hope they prove useful to you as well!
The journey of writing my first self-published book and getting it out to the public has been a wild ride. In this post, I share the top six lessons I learned throughout the process. From questions of editing and researching to what I decided to call myself and where I decided to invest time and money, I’m going into all the specifics.