Imagination, the Essential Ingredient
From the comments and question I’m seeing on social media lately it appears there are people out there trying to be writers who have absolutely [Read More]
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Writing For Children: Turn Your Ideas Into A Book
Maybe you’re one of those lucky writers whose head is bursting with ideas. Or perhaps you have one idea that’s been nagging you for weeks, [Read More]
Is Your Novel Idea Worthy?
Not all ideas deserve a novel. Some want a short story others can only work in a poem. So how do you know if your [Read More]
A Huge Book Recommendation
I have read a lot of books about writing techniques, the creative process, and the writing process in general. Many of them I would recommend [Read More]
Email Grammar Quiz
How good is your grammar? When writing email messages, proper grammar is important. By being aware of common mistakes, you can avoid them. In other [Read More]
Emulating Mark Twain’s Writing Style
His name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, but we know him by the name of Mark Twain, an American author, famous not only for humour but [Read More]
Your Book Marketing Plan – How Much Should You Budget to Promote Your Book?
To promote your book successfully, it’s important to budget funds for book marketing. While it’s certainly possible to do online book promotion on a shoestring [Read More]
No Book Marketing Plan? What Are You Thinking?
What Was I Thinking? When I first started out selling my fiction novels, I went ahead and had the books printed without even having a [Read More]
How Journaling Can Help with Achieving Your Goals
Journaling can help you achieve your goals because it will force you to think about them, consider the why and how, and delve deeper into [Read More]
Blogging For Authors – Why Blogging May Be THE New Way to Be a Successful Author
Is blogging THE new way to be an author in this “new era of publishing”? Consider this true story related in an interview I did [Read More]
FB Marketing – Your Web Traffic Goldmine
Facebook – is one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. More than 62 million people use Facebook every day. A long [Read More]
Discovering Science Fiction’s Re-emergence and Re-assessment in the USA
Science fiction has emerged as acceptable in the literary cannon with the inclusion of a wide selection of science fiction writers as worthy of studying. [Read More]
Brainstorm Your Novel
To expand a story idea into 100,000 words requires a writer to possess a meticulous attention to detail. Elements within a novel that make up [Read More]
How Do You Begin Writing a Novel – 3 Tips For Novel Writing Success
If you’re anything like most aspiring fiction writers, you’ve wondered: how do you begin writing a novel? It’s an excellent question, with many possible answers. [Read More]
Top Ten Reasons Why Your Book Marketing Strategy Is Not Working
The publishing business has changed dramatically in the past few years. Today, nearly anyone can publish a book it seems. Hundreds of thousands of new [Read More]
Tips To Find A Literary Agent
Before going into how to find a literary agent, first let us understand the work of a literary agent. The literary agents are the representatives [Read More]
5 Easy Steps to Plotting Your Novel
It is a truth held to be self evident that writers at the beginning of a story will always procrastinate. I’ve known writers who are [Read More]
Choosing MA Degrees in Creative Writing
Most people wanting to do an MA / Masters degree in creative writing probably wish to do so as a way to launch their career [Read More]
Self-Publishing Means Self-Marketing
One of the fiercest debates which has raged in recent times among authors, aspiring authors and the communities amid which they move has concerned the [Read More]
Don’t Price Your Kindle Book Too High
There are some wonderful books available in both paperback and e-book formats and, thanks to online retail sites, it has never been easier to choose [Read More]
Writing About Your Life
Someone asked me, “When is there time to remember?” I replied simply that if she feels she doesn’t have time, this is the effect of [Read More]