What is SEO? SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is essentially how you make your website visible to people using search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo. If you’re writing for the internet, be it your own website or blog or someone else’s, then it’s something you need to think seriously about before you start writing. Using SEO effectively...

You might think that you already know everything you need to know about writing in the workplace. After all, anyone can send an email, can’t they? But even though an email can seem more informal, if you’re using email in the workplace then you need to make sure that the correspondence you send out is appropriate and professional. Your emails wi...

We’ve already talked about finding new markets and ideas for your non-fiction work, so it seems only fair that we do the same for fiction this week! Some writers find that writing fiction can be a lot more fun, because it gives you complete freedom to come up with new ideas. The problem is that the market for fiction is much more competitive, wit...

Writing non-fiction is by far the easiest way to get published and start making money from your writing. The market is bigger and less crowded, and the market for non-fiction work is wider and more varied.The problem most new writers seem to face is finding an idea for an article, and we completely understand! It can be a little bit intimidati...

So, now you've written your book it's time to move on to promoting it. After all, it's no good having a book published if no one knows about it! It used to be that the promotional work was down to the publisher, not the author, but times have changed and authors are now far more involved with the marketing side of things. Some authors make ...