My goal when I started writing the Beyond Words blog was, first and foremost, to shine a spotlight on all the people who work behind the scenes to bring an …
Audiobook Narrators
In my last post, I introduced you to Bryan Barney, who worked behind the scenes to bring the audiobook version of THE RECRUITER to your eardrums. Now, I’d like to …
Audio Book Production
When my kids were little, they each had their favorite Dr. Seuss book. My daughter’s was “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas,” and my son’s was “The Cat in the Hat …
Marketing
In my previous post, I introduced you to my rising-star of a publicist, Tatiana Radujkovic. But, as I have learned over the past two years, she is far from the …
Publicists
“Let me put you in touch with my publicist, she handles that.” “I just got an email from my publicist, she booked me another great interview.” “My publicist is arranging the …
Print Editors
If you think of writing a book as sculpting, the first draft is the author carving the basic form out of clay, or wood, whatever material works best for you …
Cover Designers
You should absolutely judge a book by its cover. To do otherwise, to ignore the image and text on the front of a book and skip right to the words …
Author Website Developers
If you’re reading this, then you found my website. As of this writing, the Sunday before Thanksgiving in 2023, I average about 9 visitors to this site per month. (Hi, …
Developmental Editors
There are a lot of analogies out there for writing a novel. Stephen King has said on multiple occasions that he believes a novel is something that already exists in …
Acquisition Editors
If Literary Agents are the Sphinx from The NeverEnding Story, as my belabored analogy in the previous post made them out to be, then Acquisition Editors are Commodus Aurelius from Gladiator. They sit on …