Calling all romance book lovers to come to the Florida West Coast Writers book signing in Tampa, Saturday, May 20th, from 6pm to 8pm.

Member Benefit #3

A feature of your NAIWE website is a blog where you can reach out to readers and potential clients with business breakthroughs, new books published, speaking engagements, articles, tips, news, […]

Are there days that you want to just get away from computers, iPhone, iPad, anything dealing with technology?

Recently, I had one of those days.

So I pushed back away from desk and started thinking..

How […]

There is no one-size-fits-all way to write a memoir. In fact, any great memoirist will tailor, shape, and frame their memoir to fit their strengths and needs. Many CEOs and entrepreneurs, for example, prefer a […]

We wanted to get to know Leslie Truex (NAIWE’s Author Representation Expert) better, so last month we sat down with her. Here are some thoughts she shared with us.

What is a literary agent?

A literary agent […]

Ah, networking — an eternal topic for independent writers and editors.

I’ve been procrastinating about writing this column because it felt as if I had said everything about networking there was to say. Then two […]

Where the Caribou Still Roam chronicles Mueller’s travels in the distant corners of North America. More than an adventure travelogue, Caribou is a weave of personal memoir, environmental, and cultural comm […]

One night, while searching for information on private libraries—and there are quite a few of considerable scope and merit—I discovered the collection of Richard Macksey, the Johns Hopkins prof […]

May: National Get Caught Reading Month. Wherever you go, the campaign challenges you to get caught reading.

May 1: National Mother Goose Day. This day honors Mother Goose, the imaginary author of a collection […]

Your first chance to make a great impression on an agent is through your query letter. Whether you’re submitting a novel or non-fiction book, the query letter is more than a note telling the agent what you’re o […]

Mystery writer Marcia Rosen knows that the most powerful lines of William Shakespeare’s Tempest:

O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That h […]

Have you ever been in a restaurant when the people next to you started arguing? Talk about tension! Putting a fight or argument into your story is a great way to add tension, but if you rely solely on personal […]

I have edited a number of first-time writers, and when I ask them, “Who is your audience?” most of them say, “The general reader.” Of course, such an answer is much too vague.

When I copyedited a novel about t […]

Member Benefit #2

You may have read about how a strong presence on the web can build your writing or service career, but you may not have wanted to spend a lot of time and money creating a website from the […]

Among the illustrious speakers at the 1888 Republican National Convention was Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer known for his mesmerizing oratory. Douglass was also an escaped slave who pushed for […]