by David Smale, chief creative officer, Storyteller Publishing, LLC Have a topic and a point There’s a difference between the two. The topic is what you’re writing about. That can be a novel, a short story, a biography or a motivational piece. Your topic should be obvious very quickly.  

Last Fall when my first book, Honor Through Sacrifice, came up for renewal with my publisher, we discussed the options and agreed that I should retain the publishing rights going forward and transfer the book to Hold The Line Press, LLC, which is my writing company. We did that and