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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.
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.
202 pages, ebook
Published June 3, 2025
About the author
K.M. Allan
6 books62 followersK.M. Allan is an identical twin, but not the evil one. She started her career penning beauty articles for a hairstyling website and now powers herself with chocolate and green tea while she writes novels and blogs about writing.
When she’s not creating YA stories full of hidden secrets, nightmares, and powerful magic, she likes to read, binge-watch too much TV, spend time with family, and take more photos than she will ever humanly need.
Visit her website, www.kmallan.com, to discover the mysteries of the universe. Or at the very least, some good writing tips.
When she’s not creating YA stories full of hidden secrets, nightmares, and powerful magic, she likes to read, binge-watch too much TV, spend time with family, and take more photos than she will ever humanly need.
Visit her website, www.kmallan.com, to discover the mysteries of the universe. Or at the very least, some good writing tips.
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June 3, 2025
If you are serious about the craft of writing and authoring, then this book is a must have.
K.M. Allan is one of the most generous writers around. This is comprehensive coverage of how to be a modern writer and how to get your book written, published, branded and released.
Checklists do help. They give you a roadmap to follow and Allan's roadmaps are gold. Clear, concise, helpful tips and tricks. Easy to read cover to cover or to dip in and out depending on where you are at with your book.
Lots of bookmarked favourites in this one. Things to go back to time and again.
Especially love the Celebration Checklist.
A great set up and an essential read for writers.
The ARC was inspiring and now I have my published copy.
K.M. Allan is one of the most generous writers around. This is comprehensive coverage of how to be a modern writer and how to get your book written, published, branded and released.
Checklists do help. They give you a roadmap to follow and Allan's roadmaps are gold. Clear, concise, helpful tips and tricks. Easy to read cover to cover or to dip in and out depending on where you are at with your book.
Lots of bookmarked favourites in this one. Things to go back to time and again.
Especially love the Celebration Checklist.
A great set up and an essential read for writers.
The ARC was inspiring and now I have my published copy.
October 25, 2025
A great companion book to K.M. Allan's Writing and Editing Checklist book. This is for all that stuff outside of writing and editing that authors need to do.
There are tons of advice, information and suggestions within this book, and the checklists cover an array of things you might not have even considered - such as style sheets, query letters and branding, to name a few.
I've been using this to build up my own personal Author Roadmap and Schedule using these checklists as a guide.
If you are a new author or planning to publish one day, this will be a lifesaver for steering you right. There are so many aspects to an author's journey that we often don't even think of.
This book makes sure you are well and truly covered.
There are tons of advice, information and suggestions within this book, and the checklists cover an array of things you might not have even considered - such as style sheets, query letters and branding, to name a few.
I've been using this to build up my own personal Author Roadmap and Schedule using these checklists as a guide.
If you are a new author or planning to publish one day, this will be a lifesaver for steering you right. There are so many aspects to an author's journey that we often don't even think of.
This book makes sure you are well and truly covered.
May 24, 2025
A nifty companion to Allan's Writing and Editing Checklists. I downloaded this to my kindle, and I take it with me every time I go out writing. Some fantastic reminders and tips that'll have you looking at your writing in a whole new way. A must-have!
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