Highlighting the best independent publications in fiction and non-fiction. Your new favorite author is right here.

Open Blog Weekend: 15 Great and Easy Ways to Promote Your Book Online

Open Blog Weekend

There is one question in the publishing universe that has, and always will linger on author’s minds; how to promote and …

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Open Blog Weekend: Writing a Travel Blog

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Thanks to cheaper airfare and accommodation, more and more people are able to travel these days. This means that many …

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Open Blog Weekend: Book Publishing Process – In The Meantime

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So your manuscript is at the publisher being transformed into your book.  There’s nothing for you to do right? Wrong! …

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Open Blog Weekend: Five Reasons to Not KDP Select

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There is so much controversy over the Kindle Direct Publishing Select program; some authors think that it’s that best thing …

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Open Blog Weekend: Five Top Tips for Highly Creative Covers

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You’ve written your book, edited it to perfection and are now ready to self-publish. YAY! Then the awful truth hits …

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Open Blog Weekend: Thanks for the Memories

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I’m a really lucky guy in a very privileged position. Since 2011 I’ve managed to lie, cheat and steal my …

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Open Blog Weekend: The Power of Story

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As Jim Loehr, the author of The Power of Story: Change Your Story, Change Your Destiny in Work and in …

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Open Blog Weekend: Is your author website working for you?

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Once you have a website as an author, there is a myth that it will just work and pull in …

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Open Blog Weekend: A Symphony of Adrenaline and Drama: Writing Epic Action

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I’m an action junkie, no two ways about it. Superheroes, sci-fi, fantasy, horror––if it gets my blood pumping, then I’m …

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Open Blog Weekend: Manuscript Appraisals

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Finding the path to writing a ‘publishable’ piece of fiction is a balancing act: it takes good prose, a well-crafted …

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July’s Open Blog Weekend

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It’s now been just under 2 years since we launched. We are still trying our best to keep all rates …

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Open Blog Weekend: An Overview

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Our first Open Blog Weekend has been all that we hoped for, and more! If you missed any of the …

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Open Blog Weekend: The Beginner’s Dive into Book Promotion by E. Rawls

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Marketing can seem like a daunting task at first glance, but if you take it step by step and allow …

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Open Blog Weekend: Sex and Dinner by Nicholas Rossis

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“How about sex and dinner?” she asked, her throaty voice sending tingles to play on the fine hairs on his …

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Open Blog Weekend: Self-Publishing Alchemy by Harry Patz, Jr.

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Author of The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s “Everybody says, ‘I should …

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Open Blog Weekend: Anesthetic by Faith Cotter

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There were four things I was absolutely sure that I loved as a teenager: reading, writing, horseback riding, and medicine. …

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Open Blog Weekend: Writing for Social Justice by Kate Robinson

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You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say. ::: F. Scott …

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Open Blog Weekend: Don’t Crack Under Pressure by Jan M. Leotti

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Part I: Your Publishing Team Assembling a publishing team for your first novel is a daunting task, but once you’ve …

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Open Blog Weekend: Ambition by Sue Millard

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March 1838 It was a cheerless wet morning down at Woodside Ferry. The drifting drizzle was so thick it was …

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Open Blog Weekend: I always knew I wanted to be a writer; I had no idea I was going to be a publisher by Richard Watt

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We live in a remarkable time for the publishing industry. As traditional publishers merge and traditional booksellers struggle to stay …

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