Highly Recommended Self Improvement Books
You have got to motivate yourself to motivate others. If you don’t know how, then it’s time to browse through some self-improvement books on how [Read More]
BOOKS
How to Find Balance Between Writing Books & Marketing Your Work
Marketing is a big part of building a successful writing business. And you need time to market your books. Time to create emails for your [Read More]
Simple Steps Lead To Successful Books
Like most first time authors, I figured that once the word was out that I’d written a book, the world would beat a path to my door wanting to buy it. I’ll admit I gave little thought to marketing until the day my first printing of Handbook To A Happier Life was delivered. In a panic, I called a published author I knew and asked, “What do I do now?” She suggested several books about book marketing, which I bought immediately. I was on my way.
Best Books On Writing (25 Writing Books For Fiction/Nonfiction Writers)
Looking for books to hone your skills as a writer? Maybe you’re looking for the perfect gift for a writer you know whose library of [Read More]
How to Write Attention-Grabbing Promo Copy for Books
The publishing marketplace is flooded with thousands of new titles every single day, and readers are inundated with offers, messages, pictures, and pleas to buy. [Read More]
Serial Box Creates Books for the Age of Peak TV
Some time ago, I found myself in need of a vacation read. I am a book critic, so this was an easily solved problem: I [Read More]
Are Physical Books Making a Comeback?
After losing ground to Kindles and tablets, physical books are making a comeback, and SA’s printing industry wants to make sure the country doesn’t lose [Read More]
The Best Books on Writing, According to Novelists, Poets, and Writing Professors
Welcome to Reading Lists, comprehensive book guides from the Strategist designed to make you an expert (or at least a fascinating dinner-party companion) in hyperspecific or [Read More]
13 Books About The English Language That Will Change What You Know About Writing And Reading
Language is a funny thing. If you’re reading this sentence, for example, there’s a good chance that you speak and understand English perfectly well. But [Read More]
Booksellers Predict Hot Sales This Summer
Summer is a key time for booksellers around the country in regions that attract tourists during the season, and for those that see increased foot [Read More]
COMMA CHAMELEON: Behind Most Good Books, There’s a Merlin You’ll Never Meet
What’s as shy as a leopard, sharp as a scalpel and helps wag the tale? A fine editor, of course. Hottish off the press, the [Read More]
Fake Books Sold on Amazon Could be Used for Money Laundering
Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $24,000 to a [Read More]
How to Politely Sell Your Books to Friends
Many writers are introverts, most hate selling, and it is not always easy to develop strategies for approaching existing contacts. Yet established networks provide real [Read More]
No Mystery Crime is the Biggest-Selling Genre in Books
Sales of crime novels in the UK have soared, overtaking general fiction for the first time. But this thrilling genre can be a comfort, too, [Read More]
Outskirts Press Self-Published Books Named Finalists for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
These four Outskirts Press self-published books include two adult fiction and two adult nonfiction works by talented independent authors. Outskirts Press is pleased to announce [Read More]
So You Want to Write Children’s Books?
But my friend Alli is! Alli Brydon, a children’s book editor and writer based in the New York area—and a friend from the time we both [Read More]
The New Vanguard
Our critics chose 15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century. But even if [Read More]
» Penny Candy Books: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions
Penny Candy Books is a publishing company focused on children’s picture books that was founded in 2015 by two poets who met in graduate school. [Read More]
Westfield boy author of three books, working on fourth
A Westfield boy can now add becoming an author to his list of accomplishments at only 9 years old. Ayden Rogalski has had three books [Read More]
Novel Ideas and Where To Find Them
Do you want to write a novel? You’ve come to the right place. This is part one in a multi-part series that will take you [Read More]
The best recent crime novels
Sunburn (Faber, £14.99), Laura Lippman’s homage to the hardboiled, morally ambiguous novels of James M Cain, has the texture and many of the tropes of [Read More]