Creating a successful writing career in today’s complex, competitive publishing environment can feel like forging through a jungle built on quicksand with only a fountain pen and a dream.

In an ever-changing industry where you’re expected to master both craft and business—juggling your writing with marketing demands, budget constraints, social media, and more—how do you maintain your passion and build a thriving writing career?

This is a survival manual for authors.

Whether you’re a beginning or established author, this indispensable guide gives you the tools to navigate an often difficult, demanding field and overcome the toughest challenges writers face:

• How to cope with rejection, criticism, and failure
• How to deal with impostor syndrome, comparison, and other writer demons
• How to stay motivated and produce your best work
• How to balance creativity and commerce
• How to take charge of your career when so much can feel out of your control

With compassion, humor, and insight drawn from decades working with thousands of best-selling, successful working authors, career book editor Tiffany Yates Martin empowers you to navigate the challenges of walking the author’s path, and shows you how to build a meaningful, rewarding, happier writing life.

Whether you are writing fiction—literary or genre fiction—or writing nonfiction or memoir; whether you want to create a publishing career or simply love words and language; whether you’re pursuing traditional publishing, indie or self-publishing, or hybrid or small-press publishing, this writing guide will help you become a better writer…and a more satisfied one.

Tiffany Yates Martin has spent decades working with major publishers and bestselling and award-winning authors. She is the founder of FoxPrint Editorial, and author of Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing.