Intuitive Author and Intuitive Editing by Tiffany Yates Martin
Tiffany Yates Martin Books

My Books

The Intuitive Author: How to Grow & Sustain a Happier Writing Career

Writers need honest guidance on what it takes to sustain a publishing career, but it can be hard to offer that honesty without amplifying writerly anxiety and negativity. Tiffany’s wise approach is one I wholeheartedly applaud: prioritize resilience in the face of new and old industry challenges. Every writer is going to encounter trouble, and Tiffany shows that it’s how you respond that matters.

Jane Friedman, author of The Business of Being a Writer

Coming on: October 15, 2024

The Intuitive Author

How to Grow & Sustain a Happier Writing Career

In an ever-changing industry where you’re expected to master both craft and business—juggling your writing with marketing demands, budget constraints, social media, and more—how do you maintain your passion and build a thriving writing career?

This is a survival manual for authors.

Whether you’re just beginning your writing journey or are an established author, this indispensable guide gives you the tools to navigate an often difficult, demanding field and overcome the toughest challenges writers face:

  • How to cope with rejection, criticism, and failure
  • How to deal with impostor syndrome, comparison, and other writer demons
  • How to stay motivated and produce your best work
  • How to balance creativity and commerce
  • How to take charge of your career when so much can feel out of your control

With compassion, humor, and insight drawn from decades working with thousands of best-selling, successful working authors, career book editor Tiffany Yates Martin empowers you to navigate the challenges of walking the author’s path, and shows you how to build a meaningful, rewarding, happier writing life.

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Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing

Intuitive Editing is a book that should be on every writer’s bookshelf. Tiffany’s approach is straightforward, her information essential for every writer, and her knowledge and ideas will fire the imagination and enhance every story. A must-read.

—Sejal Badani, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings and The Storyteller’s Secret

Intuitive Editing

A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing

“Editing your own writing can feel like doing your own brain surgery.…”

After you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re standing at the foot of Revision Mountain, climbing to the summit can feel impossible. It’s hard to look at your own writing with the objective eye needed to shape it into a tight, polished, publishable story—but just like writing, self-editing is a skill you can learn.

Developmental editor Tiffany Yates Martin has spent her career in the publishing industry honing practical, actionable techniques to help authors evaluate how well their story is working, where it might not be, and how to fix it.

With a clear, accessible, user-friendly approach, she leads writers through every step of deepening and elevating their own work, as well as how to approach the edit and develop their “editor brain,” and how to solicit and process feedback. Intuitive Editing doesn’t offer one-size-fits-all advice or rigid writing “rules”; instead it helps authors discover what works for their story and their style—to find the best version of their vision.

Whether you’re writing fiction, narrative nonfiction, or memoir; whether this your first story or your fiftieth, Intuitive Editing will give you the tools you need to edit and revise your own writing with inspiration, motivation, and confidence.

New: Intuitive Editing Supplemental Materials
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My Fiction

In addition to my work as an editor, I write fiction under a pen name, Phoebe Fox.

Releases 9/11/2021

The Way We Weren’t

An unlikely friendship between a septuagenarian and a younger woman becomes a story of broken trust, lost love, and the unexpected blooming of hope against the longest odds.

You trying to kill yourself, or are you just stupid?

Marcie Malone didn’t think she was either, but when she drives from Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up in a stranger’s home, she doesn’t seem to know anymore. Despondent and heartbroken over an unexpected loss and the man she thought she could count on, Marcie leaves him behind, along with her job and her whole life, and finds she has nowhere to go.

Herman Flint has seen just about everything in his seventy years living in a fading, blue-collar Florida town, but the body collapsed on the beach outside his window is something new. The woman is clearly in some kind of trouble and Flint wants no part of it–he’s learned to live on his own just fine, without the hassle of worrying about others. But against his better judgment he takes Marcie in and lets her stay until she’s on her feet on the condition she keeps out of his way.

As the unlikely pair slowly copes with the damages life has wrought, Marcie and Flint have to decide whether to face up to the past they’re each running from, and find a way to move forward with the people they care about most.

The Way We Weren't, a novel by Phoebe Fox
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Released 8/11/2020

A Litle Bit of Grace

Family is everything—Grace Adams’s mom must have said it to her a thousand times before she died. Before Grace’s dad ran off with an aspiring actress half his age. Before only-child Grace found out she was unable to have children of her own. Before Brian—her childhood best friend, business partner, and finally her husband—dropped a “bombshell” on her in the form of her stunning new replacement.

Which means Grace now has…nothing.

Until a letter from a woman claiming to be a relative Grace never knew she had sends her on a journey—from the childhood home she had to move back into (three doors down from the happy couple) to a tropical paradise island to meet a total stranger who claims to be family. And Grace starts to uncover answers about the eccentric woman her family never mentioned: an octogenarian who writes a viral relationship-advice blog, a compulsive (and highly successful) matchmaker…and the keeper of an unimaginable family secret held for more than fifty years.

A heartfelt, funny story about family and forgiveness, starting over when the happy ending ends, and handling it all with a little bit of grace.

A Little Bit Of Grace A Novel By Phoebe Fox
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The Breakup Doctor Series

Read a little history behind the Breakup Doctor Series.

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