Inkslinger 2 Planning Your Amazing Book

Kimberly Cooper Griffin is an award-winning author and software designer. Her technical career spans almost three decades and while she's always been a writer, she's focused on it more recently, effectively melding her technical and creative passions. Over that time, she has pondered two major issues: 1 - Publishing has a diversity problem, 2 - The overly complex process of getting published, whetherthrough self-publishing or a traditional publisher. She attributes these issues to the barriers to entry: time, money, and knowledge. These have led to marginalized voices getting left behind in a historically straight, white, cis male-dominated industry. To address this, with the help of partners, she founded a software company called Inkstacks, which is working to establish a nurturing community for writers that providessoftware-guided navigation, simplifying a complicated process to produce high-quality manuscripts. This supports all writers, particularly marginalized groups who have been historically shut out of a clear path toward publication. Kimberly's vision is to provide writers with visibility and readers and publishers with a wider, richer pool of diverse talent, by removing hurdles, and allowing writers to do whatthey love to do most-write. Kimberly can be found at KimberlyCooperGriffin.com and on Twitter @kcoopergriffin.

In this book, Inkslinger 2-Plan Your Amazing Book, we take the planning topics we summarized in Inkslinger-99-Day Guided Writing Experience and expand on them. We dive deeper into the plotting and preparation required to craft a truly excellent book. We try not to put you to sleep with history or the boring details you get in classes; we provide practical knowledge to give you the confidence to write the book you've been wanting to write. We teach youhow to plan your book so that when you sit down to write it, you know exactly what you need to do to craft your story.