Guest Post: Lockdown or On Location – What’s your ideal Writer’s Retreat? by Matthew Lightfoot
What’s your perfect environment for writing? Do you prefer to lock yourself away in a silent room, away from any …
FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN FOR MY NEW SERIES – Clive Carpenter
I’m a huge fan of PULP FICTION. And I don’t mean the Tarantino movie that robbed the world of the phrase “pulp …
KDP Print Just Got A Whole Lot More Attractive by Nicholas Rossis
I’m sure most of you have heard the news by now, but if you haven’t, Amazon has announced some major …
Five Prominent Ways a Busy Author Can Market Themselves Online
Over the last decade the internet has changed the lives of writers dramatically. It has tested the publishing industry to …
Guest Post: Give Me Some Space: The Importance of Declaring Your Workspace
A word from Sara Cleveland: One of the things I have struggled in my journey as a writer is my …
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: 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 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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …