3 Reasons to Write the Premise BEFORE You Write Your Novel

As writers, we get so absorbed with the storyline and characters, writing, and a myriad of creative reasonsnot to write that we forget about the business side of being a writer.

We lose sight of the fact that once we’re done with writing, editing, revising (rinse and repeat), we’ll need to talk about the book. In a way that’s interesting, intelligent andconcise.

Cue the deer in the headlights footage.

It’s embarrassing when someone asks, “What’s your book about?” and you stand there staring at t...