Open Blog Weekend: 15 Great and Easy Ways to Promote Your Book Online
There is one question in the publishing universe that has, and always will linger on author’s minds; how to promote and …
Open Blog Weekend: Writing a Travel Blog
Thanks to cheaper airfare and accommodation, more and more people are able to travel these days. This means that many …
Open Blog Weekend: Book Publishing Process – In The Meantime
So your manuscript is at the publisher being transformed into your book. There’s nothing for you to do right? Wrong! …
Open Blog Weekend: Five Reasons to Not KDP Select
There is so much controversy over the Kindle Direct Publishing Select program; some authors think that it’s that best thing …
Open Blog Weekend: Five Top Tips for Highly Creative Covers
You’ve written your book, edited it to perfection and are now ready to self-publish. YAY! Then the awful truth hits …
Open Blog Weekend: Thanks for the Memories
I’m a really lucky guy in a very privileged position. Since 2011 I’ve managed to lie, cheat and steal my …
Open Blog Weekend: The Power of Story
As Jim Loehr, the author of The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Work and in …
Interview – Claire Nana, author of Leverage
Self-Publisher’s Showcase: Today we are joined by Claire Nana, author of Leverage: The Science of Turning Setbacks into Springboards. Welcome …
Open Blog Weekend: Is your author website working for you?
Once you have a website as an author, there is a myth that it will just work and pull in …
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 …
Ann Swinfen – Betrayal
Betrayal: The Fenland Series 2 (Historical Fiction) In 1648, the coldest year in living memory, Mercy Bennington and her neighbours …
FREE: Tom Reinhart’s Judgment: July 15th-19th
Judgment (Dystopian/Horror/Thriller) “All their lives people have prayed to God, prayed for a sign, prayed for angels to intervene in …
Review: Steve Conoboy’s Macadamian Pliers
Macadamian Pliers is an unpleasant man with a hideous plan. He’s just sold a house to Emmet’s Peak’s newest family, …
James Collins – Lonely House
Lonely House (Thriller/Horror) Drover and Pete are two hopeful drifters looking for a better life. Desperate for food, they break …
Michael Mullin – Simon
Simon (Young Adult/New Adult) A modern-day Hamlet for YA readers. His father is dead. His mother has remarried. His uncle …
Interview – Steve Dullum, author of The Spiral
Self-Publisher’s Showcase: Today we are joined by Steve Dullum, author of suspense novel The Spiral. Welcome to the Showcase Lounge, …
Review: Charlotte Hains’ Introducing Charlotte
When Charlotte bumps into her old friend Anthony she is at her lowest… Shocked by the revelation of her escape …
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 …
Review: Jeff Dawson’s Love’s True Second Chance
This is a simple story of boy meets girl. She was 16, he was 17. They were both going out …