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Your manuscript is ready to query, you have a list of agents to contact, and you’re ready to draft the all-important query letter. As you prepare to send your letter to agents, there’s another piece o...

Once you have a finished and polished book, it’s time to begin the next exciting step of your writing career: getting your book into the hands of readers! There are two main paths you can take to make...

Querying literary agents is a necessary step for writers who want their books published by a traditional publisher. However, the process can be competitive, and a successful query letter needs to stan...

You may be familiar with novelizations of franchises like Star Wars, Disney, Marvel, or others—but how do you get a job writing those kinds of books, anyway?

What is IP Writing?

First, let’s talk ab...

You’ve decided to self-publish your book! Congrats! Self-publishing can be an amazing and rewarding path. It allows you more freedom and creativity to do what you want with your book, make your own de...

You’ve spent months drafting your manuscript, revising, and preparing your query letter. You’re ready to land an agent! But when you finally receive a response, your heart sinks— “Unfortunately, I w...

Your novel's title is your first chance to grab a reader's attention. A perfect title will catch the reader’s eye on the bookshelf amidst the hundreds of other books surrounding it, or stop a read...

We all want our novels to be the absolute best they can be before we send them out into the world. But perfect is the enemy of good— and perfectionism can be an excuse to procrastinate.

So what’s a w...