Articles & Announcements
Every month, we send a newsletter to our community featuring upcoming events as well as an article by one of our knowledgeable team members. This page chronicles the articles, but be sure to sign up for the newsletter to get them in your inbox and to be updated about events.
Monthly Publishing Q&A
Join Ali Shaw for a monthly Q&A about the publishing process, the business of writing, and the book world in general. If you have urgent questions about how your book is progressing through the publishing path, bring them! If you've always wondered about something...
read moreWeekly Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write
Each Thursday evening between 6:00 and 6:30 Pacific, connect with us online to chat about writing. Then we’ll log off for an hour of writing time. People can continue the conversation by posting their word counts and other writing accomplishments on our Facebook...
read moreThey May Be Killed, But They’re Still Your Darlings: Book Cover Concepts That Didn’t Make the Cut
By Jenny Kimura, Collaborative Designer Every creative out there knows that the best form of a piece of work is one that has gone through multiple iterations. Whether you’re writing or designing, the best way to start a creative project is to try many different ideas...
read moreWriting a Gripping Utopia
by Arwen Spicer, Author and Guest Contributor In today’s increasingly dystopian reality, readers are hungry for hope, so it’s not surprising utopian fiction is making a comeback. But just what makes a good utopian story, a delight the reader will still think about...
read more21 Ways to Practice Literary Citizenship
Guest Post by Author Melissa Hart I recently had the opportunity to have author Melissa Hart as a guest speaker in my Entrepreneurship in Publishing class in PSU. She has some incredible advice for practicing literary citizenship—things anyone can do, whether they're...
read moreWhen You Get Tired of Writing: How to Pick Up the Parts of Your Book That Drag
By Kristen Hall-Geisler, Collaborative Editor I’ve seen it a hundred times in manuscripts I’ve edited (and I’m guilty of it myself): Somewhere around the two-thirds mark, the writer has obviously gotten tired of writing and revising and writing and revising. The first...
read moreWas It a Good Idea to Market My Own Book?
Guest Post by Jack Hassard For the past six months I’ve been marketing my newest book[1], The Trump Files, which was prepared for publication by Indigo: Editing, Design, and More, and I marketed it myself. I’m reporting to you that marketing my book created lots of...
read moreBetcha Didn’t Know…Publishing Trivia Edition
By Ali Shaw, Executive Editor Do you consider yourself a book nerd? I’m sure you’ve got books lining shelves in multiple rooms. Or maybe your tablet’s memory is full of ebooks and audiobooks. You’ve probably read a good variety of the classics, recent bestsellers, and...
read moreGifts for Readers and Writers
By Ali Shaw, Executive Editor I have not always been a great gift giver. As a child I used to puff paint T-shirts and even gave my grandpa a gimmicky hands-free light set that was essentially flashlights zip tied to glasses frames. Yikes! Through a little growing up,...
read moreWhat You Need to Know about the New Adult Genre
by Bailey Potter, Collaborative Editor Nowadays, other than for college, young adults often don’t fully move out of their parents’ house until they’re in their mid to late twenties, and people are getting married and having children later than the generations before,...
read moreBook Hustling for Introverts
By Ali Shaw, Executive Editor It was in the midst of a fun-loving conversation with other writers in Indigo’s weekly write-in when suddenly I could hear anxiety creeping into one person’s voice: “Yeah, I’m almost done with revision, but when the book comes out, I’ll...
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