Why you need to build your readership (and how to do it.) I’ve wanted to talk about how to build your readership and boost your traffic for a while now because it’s something I’ve been thinking about in my own work and business. I’ve talked before about why you need to grow your audience. Today, […]
Grandma Was Wrong. These Counterintuitive Money Strategies For Freelancers Actually Work
The only security I have is in my ability to create profitable assets. As that ability grows, my security grows. I grew up in India in a family that saw both massive wealth and backbreaking poverty. In 1947 when the country was split into two, my grandparents, who lived on the “wrong side” of the […]
Lessons From An Exhilarating London Book Fair
Writers need to get serious about the business of authorship. (Editor’s Note: I’ve attended the London Book Fair for a few years now, but I wrote this in 2017, which was the first time I attended. All the advice I give still stands.) I attended the London Book Fair, an annual industry event that sees […]
How To Reinvent Your Writing Career
This award-winning author talks about crossroads she encountered with her writing. What she learned can help you reinvent your writing career. The last few years have been those of soul searching, of asking questions I wasn’t sure I wanted answered, and of forcing myself to acknowledge things I most wanted to do with my life […]
The Artist’s Guide To Selling
How selling as a writer is different from selling as a creative entrepreneur. If you’re a writer who wants to write for publications, be a bestselling author, or have any kind of readership for your work, you’re in the creative industry, but you’re also—like it or not—in sales. Don’t panic, however! Artists sell differently. Artists […]