Writers, you know what that means. NaNoWriMo time! This month, Paul and I are going to do something a little crazy, a little brave, and—I hope—a little interesting. We're both doing NaNo, and we're going to share our adventure with you all by posting once a day about how it's ...

This is a really short post, because it's a really short and simple lesson. This weekend I did something I've always heard / known was okay, but never really believed made sense and therefore never really tried. I wrote a chapter out of order from the rest of my work ...

Hardcore fans of BetaBooks may have noticed we have a new look on our blog, as well as a new URL. Whereas we previously ran the blog on our subdomain (blog.betabooks.co), today we've switched to a subfolder instead (betabooks.co/blog). This is apparently a big big deal for SEO purposes . ...

This past weekend I attended the second annual Tribe Conference . The event was organized by Jeff Goins , who is a pretty interesting guy. I didn't know anything about him prior to the conference, though, I went specifically to see Tim Grahl and Shawn Coyne . I promised I'd ...

What to pay attention to while you look for beta readers AKA: I go on the internet and search for people to invite to beta read a fake book I would wager most people who have written a novel harbour a dream of going "full time". The daydream of walking ...