Guest post by Steve Moore: The media has become fixated on spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs boson (the so-called “God particle,” a name that would surely make Mr. Higgs cringe). The Higgs mechanism (i.e. the spontaneous symmetry breaking) is...
Guest post by Victoria Heckstall Words are all around us, and there are many people who desperately want to learn how to use them for self-expression. But the sad fact is that even though learning a language and its functions can be relatively easy, learning to...
Guest post by Frank Anderson In a world where authors are increasingly asked to do their own promotional work, there are few ideas better than running a webinar to promote your newly published book. Here’s why it’s such a great idea to run one: What is a...
One of the biggest mistakes I see writers make is calling their book the next Harry Potter. Never, ever, compare your book to a huge top seller. Doing this makes you look like an amateur to the agent and actually turns the agent off on your work. Often times, once a...
Many writers have been struggling for years to find an agent and they’ve tried everything. They’re starting to think that they’ll never get one, or that there’s some kind of universal conspiracy against them and they’re wondering why. If...