This is the first in a series of a toolbox called “How I Book,” a collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, and Dan Blank, the founder of WeGrowMedia. The aim is to provide honest, practical advice to writers negotiating the murky waters of publication, especially around their roles in publicity and marketing, where so much is expected and so little guidance is often offered.

Five Things I Wish I’d Known Five Months Before I Published My First Novel

By Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

I wrote my first book while during my senior year at Vassar, in a program called…