Knowing what you want in this business is one of the most important factors in creating a writing career that is meaningful to you, where you are the one at the helm of the ship, not just perpetually waiting to be chosen or desperately trying to follow the market and fit into it. In a business where authors have little control over many factors, this is where we have complete control, and exercising it is the foundation of creating a writing career that’s successful in the most important wa...| FoxPrint Editorial
Whether it’s at writing events with other authors, or you’re pitching your work to agents and editors, or talking about it with readers at events, or even in daily encounters—if you’re writing and you plan to share your writing then at some point you’re going to have to talk to people about it. People you don’t know and who don’t know you. It can be fairly terrifying. If you happen to be a writer who is more prone to introversion than extroversion—which seems rather common in ...| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. This morning I received an email from an author I’ve been working with on a multiple-pass edit wanting to cancel the rest of our contract, saying that she’d lost faith in her story and her ability to write it and had to...| FoxPrint Editorial
“Why is it every time a new thing is invented humans immediately try to use it for porn?” That’s a memorable quote from an episode of The Good Place, a favorite show the hubs and I are delightedly rewatching—but what struck me as we watched it last night was that the same seems| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. My husband and I are different types of travelers, in ways that reflect our very different personalities. I am a planner. I like to learn as much as I can about a place we’re planning to visit, what there is to do...| FoxPrint Editorial
Given what we know about how easily modern tech tools can creep into taking over an outsize place in our lives, it’s worth being mindful and intentional about how we’re using them. The more we think through how we avail ourselves of AI capabilities in our writing and careers, the better we can create a relationship with it that allows us to not only tap the potential benefits, but safeguard ourselves against the possible drawbacks and dangers to our work. Rather than going right away to A...| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Over dinner with friends the other night, I commented in conversation that I had recently deleted all the social media apps off my phone. Their eyes got big. “Wow,” one said. “Good for you,” the other ch| FoxPrint Editorial
How much of our lives do we regard as items on our to-do list? We often speak of obligations, responsibilities, duty—all the things we have to take care of before we can allow ourselves to work on what we want to. But the truth is, as the cliché goes, the only things we have to| FoxPrint Editorial
If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. Last week my husband sent me this terrifying article—a Microsoft study about the 40 jobs likely to be most imminently impacted by AI and the 40 that might be safest. I’m going to let you guess where writ| FoxPrint Editorial
As creatives we are constantly facing choices—many of them in our art blessedly malleable, at least until we’ve published our stories (and even after that, if we indie publish). If you don’t like one path you’ve sent your character down, you can hit delete and let them travel a n| FoxPrint Editorial
Advice to authors to create a newsletter is ubiquitous, and the reasons are generally solid. It's a direct line of communication to people who are very interested in your work. It's a platform that's totally within your own control and ownership, and the mailing list is your own,| FoxPrint Editorial
Irecently heard a few alarming stories about AI-generated books flooding Amazon. Some of these AI authors are publishing dozens of books in days, c...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you’re curious about how to quit social media. Maybe you took a little break, and you’re reluctant to start u...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
Last month, I was a speaker at Chris Guillebeau’s Neurodivergent2025 conference in Austin. My workshop was called “Sensory Alchemy” — I was talkin...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
You open the fridge and brush your hand against a fuzzy blue-green ball tucked behind the yogurt. Ugh, was that once a lemon? Your phone buzzes—you...| Sarah Selecky Writing School
I am beginning to believe is that a culture of "peak content" is directly at odds with my desires for my career, my wellbeing, and my life.| Ruby Warrington
