Table of contents

Foreword by Christina Lauren

PART ONE
Being an author

1: Beginnings

2: Write naked

3: Writers are crazy

4: Green with envy

5: The write path

6: The “real” writer

7: Commit to marriage; avoid the affairs

8: Trademarks of best-selling authors

9: The social media storm

10: Networking

11: The power of a street team

12: The indie revolution

13: Your big pay day

PART TWO
The craft of writing

14: Writing is a muscle

15: Inspirations

16: The right to suck

17: The sewage and blockage of writing

18: The right hook and warm-up jabs

19: Building characters

20: Secondary characters that pop

21: Let’s talk about sex

22: Theme

23: The sagging middle

24: Emotion

25: You don’t have to love all your children equally

26: The hard stuff

27: Perfect endings