Now that Writing and Editing Checklists: Everything You Need to Take Your Book from First Draft to Publication is officially out, so is its free companion ebook, Authoring Checklists: Tips and Tricks for Being a Modern Writer.

Available exclusively on my blog, it’s a gift from me to you.

This ebook came about when I was putting together the Writing and Editing Checklists, and it became clear I had too much content for one book. It was also clear that some of this content leaned toward authoring—all the writing that isn’t writing, and the tasks that crop up in the pursuit of a creative life.

This includes query letters, a synopsis, book blurbs, and getting all the details sorted with series bibles and style sheets.

As writers know, getting to the writing desk and staying there is half the battle, too, and I’ve written many a blog on self-doubt, and all the writing tricks I’ve used to get into, and keep, the habit of writing. That, as well as help with author photos, book launches, dealing with rejections, and many other authoring facets, is what these checklists are about.

Authoring Checklists: Tips and Tricks for Being a Modern Writer

Becoming an author is more than typing words onto a page. It’s the endless battle against procrastination, keeping motivated through rejection, and taking your 80,000 words of hard work and distilling it into a one-page synopsis!

Enter the Authoring Checklists. They cover everything writing that isn’t writing, and what’s required of authors in a modern world, such as writing habits, style sheets, series bibles, stopping self-sabotaging, and dealing with self-doubt. There are even checklists to help you write a query letter, blurb, and put together an ARC!

Along with advice for sorting feedback, dealing with rejection, branding your social media and other tips, this book will help you up your Authoring game, regardless of whether you’ve been in the trenches for years or are just starting out.

The ebook can be downloaded here, and I hope that pairing it with the paperback or ebook of Writing and Editing Checklists helps you to do your writing, editing, and authoring best.

Thank you for supporting it, my other books, and this blog, and here’s to getting all of our novels crafted—one checklist at a time!

— K.M. Allan

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