Therese Walsh is the co-founder and editorial director of Writer Unboxed. She is dedicated, together with a panel of esteemed contributors—including New York Times Bestselling authors, industry agents, editors, and thought leaders–to providing quality essays on the craft and business of fiction.
Writer Unboxed was named one of the best 101 websites for writers by Writer’s Digest in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and was named a ‘best of the best’ site in 2016.
The first Writer Unboxed book, called AUTHOR IN PROGRESS, will be published in the fall of 2016 by Writer’s Digest. It’s a book filled with advice about what it takes to really get published, and involved the participation of all Writer Unboxed contributors. (Learn more HERE.)
Here are a few articles Therese has written for Writer Unboxed over the years, but do check the archives at www.writerunboxed.com for more articles on the craft and business of writing, and their list of 100+ past interviewees. Write on!
Business
- Driving the Deadline
- Agents and the First Two Pages
- Turn Your Query into a Golden Ticket
- Something Isn’t Right. Is it My Query, or My Manuscript?
- Help for a Query Hater
- Writing the Synopsis
- Marketing the Fuzzy-Genre Manuscript
- Inside-Out Agent Hunting
- An Almost-Published Writer’s Guide to Not Being Stupid
- Is Your Online Presence Serving You? An Important Q&A About Amazon and Iindie Bookstores
- How a Book is Made
- Four Months and Marketing
- On Platforms and Opportunities
- About BookBuzzr, a Publicity Tool
- A No-Regrets-Pre-Pub Push
- Building a Facebook Ad
- Public Speaking
- Do Authors Choose their Covers?
Inspiration
- Music Lessons
- The Writer’s Cave
- The Power of FLASH!
- The $300,000,000 Challenge
- The Music of Language
- Just-Right Advice
- On Timidity
- On Brains: Is Right for Writers?
- When All Else Fails, Laugh: Rejection
- Homestretch Writing
- Why I Write
- Trusting Yourself
- Inspiring Characters into Being
- The Secret
- Hoping for the Best, Deciding There’s Some Good in the Worst (reviews)
- It’s All About the Cheesecake
- Five Strategies for Inspiring Creativity
- The Fearless Craft
- The 10 (or 11) Greatest Writers’ Anthems of All Time
Craft
- Beginnings
- Literary Illusionism
- The Trouble with Frosting
- Flow and Drafts and ????s, Oh My!
- Tighty Writies
- Are You Swaddling Your Manuscript?
- Plots Unboxed
- Writing the Big Story
- Tinker-Free Writing
- Weapons of Mass Instruction
- Fighting the Sag in 10 Steps
- Unhappily Ever After
- Once Before a Time: Prologues
- Once Before a Time, Part Two
- Outline=Box?
- Flip that Manuscript!
- Chiropractic Editing
- The Unpubbed Writer’s Seven Deadly Sins
- A Sure-Footed Voice
- The Lure of the Implausible-Authentic
- Humanizing Bad Guys
- Make Your Manuscript Less Bathetic
- Scene: “ACCPT” or Rework/Dump?
- Killing Darlings
- Antagonist & Contagonist
- Out with the Old: Lessons from an Almost-Author
- On your Mark, Get Set…Pre-Plotting Basics
- Answering Questions on Characterizations
- How to Make Readers Cry, in Six Steps
- One Hundred Interviews
- Something isn’t Right. Is it My Query or My Manuscript?
- Writing to be Heard: Audiobooks
- A Necessary Torment
- Untangling Story Knots in Six Steps
- Voice Q&A: Evil Narrators and Guy Talk
- Voice: An Agent’s Perspective
- The Uniqueness of You
- Nine Strategies for Surviving the Second Book
- Be Extraordinary