Writing Tips for Authors is a detailed, illustrated, how-to guide (30,139 words) with examples to help writers prepare and publish fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The guide will help writers discover the story, essay, memoir or poem they want to write; compose its beginning, middle and end; and edit it for publication. The guide includes a section on how to prepare your manuscript for publication as an e-book, design your cover and illustrations, create an e-book table of contents, and promote and publish it with e-book distributors, such as Amazon, Draft to Digital and Smashwords.