Open Blog Weekend: A Symphony of Adrenaline and Drama: Writing Epic Action
I’m an action junkie, no two ways about it. Superheroes, sci-fi, fantasy, horror––if it gets my blood pumping, then I’m …
Open Blog Weekend: Manuscript Appraisals
Finding the path to writing a ‘publishable’ piece of fiction is a balancing act: it takes good prose, a well-crafted …
July’s Open Blog Weekend
It’s now been just under 2 years since we launched. We are still trying our best to keep all rates …
Summer Reading – The Challenge of the New Millennium by Kevin J. Villeneuve
Do you remember the first book that you truly enjoyed? The one that pulled you so far into its world …
Guest Post: 9 Traits Shared by Successful Self-Publishers by James A. Rose
Self-publishing is hard work, there’s no getting around that fact. Successful self-publishing is even harder. If it’s your dream then …
Guest Post: Reaching for the stars by Kevin J. Villeneuve
Have you ever taken the time to stare into the night sky and actually feel into it? It’s at that …
Guest Post: A look inside an agent’s head by Frank Bukowski
Take a look inside a football agent’s head and prepare to be scared, very scared “Rich Dinero is the world’s …
Back to the Nineteen-Fifties
Time Travel All three of the novels I have written (You Are My Song, Eli’s Heart, How I Grew Up) …
William Shakespeare’s Birthday by Martin Baum
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. These words written by William Shakespeare …
Guest Post: Kevin J. Villeneuve’s Sci-fi Learning – Young Readers and the Environment
Environmentalism is a topic that has been fairly mainstream in world media for the past two decades. With technology progressing …
Guest Post: Steve Dullum’s Odyssey of the Abecedarian – Part Four
For anyone who missed Part Three you can find it here Hi, it’s me again. Time to wrap up this …
Guest Post: Making Time To Write by Eileen Granfors
People have asked me how I manage to read so many books. They don’t realize that reading is only one …
Guest Post: Tony Russell – Commons People: Your life in their hands
When I interviewed a group of MPs for my first book Commons People – MPs are Human Too, I wanted …
Guest Post: 3 Tips for Developing a Daily Writing Habit by Kevin Tumlinson
Good writing is about two things: Persistence and making up a second thing as you go. I’m not the only …
Surviving a Genre-Identity Crisis: What I’ve Learned as a Virgin Author by JC Stockli
I can say with firm conviction that I never thought I’d write a book, much less self-publish. It just happened. …
Guest Post: Organizing Your Writing Work Day by Paul Travis
As writers it’s very easy to say we have a full agenda each day…right? Either we are crafting, promoting, researching, …
Guest Post: Mea Culpa (Trilogy Writing) by Eileen Granfors
First-hand experience may be the best teacher, but I hope this blog post will save other writers from the mistakes …
Guest Post: The Importance of Editing by Gabby Weiss
Self publishing authors have this in common: they need an editor. If there were one piece of advice I’d give …
Guest Post: In Search of Character by Karen Long
I am a great fan of the HBO series, ‘Autopsy’, which focuses on strange deaths and the purveyors thereof…One of …
Guest Post: Creating Compelling Titles by Dale Vande Griend
From the writing and work I’ve done creating videos, I’ve found out that a great title is something that often …