The Intuitive Author

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 just beginning your writing journey or are an established author, this indispensable guide gives you the tools to navigate an often difficult, demanding field and overcome the toughest challenges writers face:

1. How to cope with rejection, criticism, and failure
2. How to deal with impostor syndrome, comparison, and other writer demons
3. How to stay motivated and produce your best work
4. How to balance creativity and commerce
5. 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.

"Tiffany's wise approach is one I wholeheartedly applaud."-Jane Friedman, author of The Business of Being a Writer

"Intuitive Author is a much-needed resource, filled to the brim with wisdom and tips that every author needs to know. It should be required reading and belongs on every author's bookshelf."-Amy Collins, literary agent, Talcott Notch

"What Tiffany Yates Martin offers in The Intuitive Author is as practical as it is inspirational.... Writers: This is a must-add title for your writing desk."-Amy Jones, editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest

"Writers: Read this book. The Intuitive Author is the chiropractic realignment your hopes, dreams, and writing goals need. What a relief for your career!" -Therese Walsh, editorial director of Writer Unboxed and author of The Moon Sisters

"A truly unique and valuable book that will help you joyfully slide into the driver's seat of your career and, dare I say it, your life." -Erin Flanagan, Edgar-winning author of Deer Season

"You may never have met Tiffany Yates Martin, but she certainly knows you-and deeply understands your writer's soul. This is a wise, compassionate and inspirational book that you will read, reread, dip into, and treasure for the entirety of your writing life."-Peter Cox, founder, Litopia Writers' Colony, the net's oldest community for writers

"It's not an exaggeration to say that Tiffany Yates Martin is one of the most influential support people in my writing career. To think that you, too, can get her levelheaded and experienced advice on how to develop the confidence and agency needed to navigate the unpredictable landscape of publishing is a true gift for any writer. Don't sleep on this book."-Ann Garvin, USA Today bestselling author of There's No Coming Back from This

"Every writer of every skill and experience level needs this book on their shelf."-Stephanie Storey, Los Angeles Times-bestselling author of Oil and Marble and Raphael

"This book is a balm for the writer's soul in the best possible way: practical tips, reasoned exploration of what it means to be both human and artist, and guidelines for making the writing life work in any given moment as well as for a lifelong creative journey.-Sharon Short, author of Trouble Island/Jess Montgomery, author of the Kinship Historical Mysteries

Writing a book is hard-and being an author is even harder. Thank goodness we have Tiffany Yates Martin to help us through all the real-life plot twists on our search for that elusive happy ending. Whether you need a swift kick in the butt or a comforting hug and pep talk, you'll find both in her brilliant book, The Intuitive Author.-Ali Brady, USA Today bestselling author of Until Next Summer

Tiffany Yates Martin has spent more than thirty years as an editor in the publishing business, working with major publishers and New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling and award-winning authors as well as indie and newer writers. She is the founder of FoxPrint Editorial (named one of Writer's Digest's Best Websites for Writers), and author of Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing. A regular contributor to writers' sites and publications like Writer's Digest, Jane Friedman, and Writer Unboxed, she is also a frequent presenter and keynote speaker for writers' organizations around the country. Under the pen name Phoebe Fox, she's the author of six novels.

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