by Ayesha Ali | Sep 17, 2026 | Character, marketing, Plot, Querying, Writing Craft
If you are thinking about submitting your work to agents or publishing, they you’ve probably come across the query letter. You know it’s the first thing publishing industry people read. You know you need to somehow condense the thousands of words of your...
by Ayesha Ali | Mar 9, 2026 | Character, marketing, Uncategorized
Age categories are an essential part of the publishing process, yet the least talked about. Often, the term “age category” gets lost inside conversations about genre: You got romance, you got historical fiction, you got picture books and you got young...
by Ayesha Ali | Aug 27, 2025 | Character, Writing Craft
As a new writer, I read a lot of articles about how to create characters yet none of them proved helpful to me. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get through the numerous questions on character sheets or figure out what my character had on their bedside...
by Ayesha Ali | Jun 24, 2025 | Character, The Writing Life
Every writer has defaults when it comes to storytelling. Mine include writing in third person, outlining my novel ahead of time, and setting my story in a fantasy world. However, when I came up with the idea for my current work-in-progress, it demanded that I forego...
by Ayesha Ali | Feb 18, 2025 | Character, Writing Craft
Hey friends. We have come to the last part of the series on writing immigrant characters. In part 1, we explored research as a decision-making tool and honed in on some vital details about our immigrant characters. In part 2, we explored the “heavier”...
by Ayesha Ali | Jan 21, 2025 | Character, Writing Craft
In last month’s post, we began our exploration of writing immigrant characters. We talked about how research can be used as a decision-making tool, and some of the choices to make for your characters. Today, we’re going to get into some of the heavier, yet...
