From Promising to Published

You've been writing and honing your craft for months or years and are curious about seeking publication for your latest project. Perhaps you wonder about the next steps in the process. Look no further!

This book has a little something for every writer interested in expanding their audience and sharing their writing with readers, from pre-writing and writing your drafts to choosing your market and the writing life before, during, and after publication.

Topics covered include:

The Lovely Littles: Breaking into Literary Magazines

The Spinning Spider: Keeping Track of your Brainchildren

Options, You've Got 'em: Traditional, Indie/Small, University Press, or Self-Publishing

Two Streams with One Stone: To Simultaneously Submit or Not

Monetize it! Part One: All about the Benjamins; Monetize it! Part Two: Risk and a Swimming Metaphor

The Myth of the Fancy-Pants Tools

The Art of Writing the Author Bio

Paradox Meets Passion: Writer vs. Author

The Slam-Bam Reply: Now in Two Painful Varieties; Creative Noodling

F.U.N

and so much more!

Auteur

Melanie Faith likes to wear many professional hats, including as a poet, photographer, prose writer, professor, editor, and tutor. Imagination and possibility are her favorite sidekicks. She is an INFJ personality type who has a typewriter she really should use more often. She especially enjoys writing nonfiction craft books that assist fellow authors on their writing paths. Collaborations included her participation in Film Shooters Collective's international "Ekphrastic Magic" photo-poetry collaboration project in Barcelona, Spain's Revela'T Festival, and her poetry set to music and performed by professional vocalists and musicians at Iowa State University. Learn more about her writing process, writing classes, and latest projects at melaniedfaith.com.