writing

Audiobooks are growing rapidly in popularity, with 38% of Americans listening to at least one in 2024, and sales surpassing $8 billion worldwide. Simon Vance, a renowned audiobook narrator, advises authors narrating their own books that narration requires stamina, consistency, and practice, emphasizing the importance of pacing, taking breaks, and bringing passion—especially for nonfiction works—to create a compelling listening experience.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/tips-for-authors-narrating-their-own-audiobooks

Crowdfunding can be an effective way for authors with an existing audience to sell their books, offering various reward tiers from digital copies to deluxe signed editions. Successful campaigns, like Joanna Penn's travel memoir and Marcin Wichary's history of keyboards, demonstrate that crowdfunding provides early income and precise print runs, though it requires careful planning, audience building, and management of logistics and timelines.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-self-published-authors-can-use-crowdfunding-to-fund-their-next-book

Scrivener allows authors writing books with multiple timelines or point-of-view characters to organize their work by creating individual files for each scene or chapter and tagging them with labels for easy management. Writers can compile specific sections by timeline or character arc into single documents, such as PDFs or ePubs, facilitating consistency checks, revisions, and sharing with beta readers or agents. This feature is especially useful for complex manuscripts, enabling focused editing and seamless navigation of different narrative threads.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/compile-multiple-timelines-or-point-of-view-character-arcs-in-your-scrivener-projects

Erica Wagner’s latest book, Wash, is a historical novel about Washington Roebling, the civil engineer who completed the Brooklyn Bridge after his father's death. Drawing from her earlier nonfiction biography Chief Engineer, she employs a modernist, non-chronological narrative to explore Roebling's life and relationships, using the Scrivener software extensively to organize her research and writing.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/write-now-with-scrivener-episode-no-62-erica-wagner-novelist-and-literary-editor

Using Scrivener on an iPad or iPhone with an external keyboard significantly improves the writing experience by providing more screen space, better cursor control, access to keyboard shortcuts, customizable extended keyboard rows, and enhanced scriptwriting capabilities. Though Apple’s keyboards are premium-priced, they offer seamless integration and protective cases, while other brands offer more affordable alternatives. Overall, pairing an external keyboard with mobile devices makes writing more comfortable and productive, especially for extended work sessions.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-using-an-external-keyboard-with-scrivener-for-ipad-or-iphone-gives-you-power-ups

After completing a novel, writers must create a synopsis—a concise, spoiler-filled summary of the story's main characters, plot points, and resolution—formatted in third person, present tense, and typically 500 to 1,000 words long. This synopsis is crucial for agents and editors to understand the novel's structure and character development and is included alongside a query letter and excerpt when submitting work for publication. Writers can develop their synopsis from their novel outline or chapter summaries, ensuring it clearly presents the narrative arc and concludes with the story's ending.

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-to-write-a-novel-synopsis