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Bending Language: The Art of Making Every Word Serve Your Story in Nonfiction

Want your nonfiction to truly resonate? This post dives into the art of intentional word choice—making language bend to your story. Discover how to evoke emotion, paint with all five senses, and edit for powerful, seemingly effortless prose.

Bending Language: The Art of Making Every Word Serve Your Story in Nonfiction

Celebrating Your Successes as a Writer

Celebrating writing successes helps beat self-doubt, boosts motivation, and builds confidence. Here’s how to do it and why.

Celebrating Your Successes as a Writer

Publishing Misconceptions: Myths That Hurt Writers

What’s true and what’s myth? This article debunks common publishing misconceptions, from advances to book marketing.

Publishing Misconceptions: Myths That Hurt Writers

Format Your Manuscript for Submission

You need more than writing chops to make a good first impression on any publisher: you need to demonstrate a little understanding of standard manuscript formatting requirements common across the publishing industry.As a publisher receiving and reviewing submissions from aspiring authors, it’s shocking how few seem to read our manuscript submission formatting requirements. Or if

Format Your Manuscript for Submission

Writing Motivation: 12 Tips to Stay Focused

Unlock your writing motivation and unleash your creativity. Explore these 12 tips to stay inspired and productive.

Writing Motivation: 12 Tips to Stay Focused

What Every Writer Needs to Know About A Book Proposal

Learn the essentials of book proposals in this Q&A with Arizona Bell, founder of WriteGeist, and discover how to secure your book’s success.

What Every Writer Needs to Know About A Book Proposal

The Five Major Plot Points for Writers

Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. But how do you make that middle part compelling?

The Five Major Plot Points for Writers

Roundup of New Releases from Ingenium Books

This fall of 2024 is an exciting time for us at Ingenium Books. We have four fabulous and unique new releases — perfect for indulging your own reading pleasure or to get a jump on your holiday shopping. Here’s a rundown! Chill: The Wine Lover’s Introduction to Cannabis By Jackie McAskill Release date: October 17,

Roundup of New Releases from Ingenium Books

Boosting Your Book Sales This Holiday Season

Authors, your book makes the perfect gift for the holidays. But how do you get people to buy your book as gifts and boost book sales?

Boosting Your Book Sales This Holiday Season

A Birthday, A Book Tribute, and A Broadcaster’s Box

August is Gwyn Teatro’s birthday month (happy birthday!) and it’s also the anniversary of the release of her audiobook, In the Thick of It: Mastering the Art of Leading from the Middle, narrated by media personality and veteran broadcast journalist Lynda Steele. It’s time for us to honour Gwyn and the rewarding journey she took

A Birthday, A Book Tribute, and A Broadcaster’s Box

Beyond Time and Place: Mastering Setting for Richer Storytelling

How do you make the most of setting in your storytelling? Here are ten key aspects to consider beyond where and when events take place.

Beyond Time and Place: Mastering Setting for Richer Storytelling

Beyond POV for Writers: Write for One Person Not A Crowd

Going beyond POV for writers. When you’re writing, it’s better to write for one person instead of a large audience. Here’s why.

Beyond POV for Writers: Write for One Person Not A Crowd

What Keeps Me Going While Marketing My Book

I’m often asked what keeps me going while marketing my book. When I was writing the book, I was clueless as to having to do the marketing.)

What Keeps Me Going While Marketing My Book

Ten Common Publishing Terms Aspiring Authors Need to Know

If you’re new to the world of publishing, you’ve probably heard some words being used that you’re not sure of what they mean.

Ten Common Publishing Terms Aspiring Authors Need to Know

Tough Talks for Easier Endings: How I Honoured My Aging Dad

By Yvonne Caputo, author of Dying With Dad As strange as it sounds, I don’t grieve the loss of my father. At least, not in the same way I grieve the loss of others, like my mother. I call it my divine paradox. Let me explain. I’m a baby boomer who, for most of my

Tough Talks for Easier Endings: How I Honoured My Aging Dad