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 …
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 …
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 …
Open Blog Weekend: An Overview
Our first Open Blog Weekend has been all that we hoped for, and more! If you missed any of the …
Open Blog Weekend: The Beginner’s Dive into Book Promotion by E. Rawls
Marketing can seem like a daunting task at first glance, but if you take it step by step and allow …
Open Blog Weekend: Sex and Dinner by Nicholas Rossis
“How about sex and dinner?” she asked, her throaty voice sending tingles to play on the fine hairs on his …
Open Blog Weekend: Self-Publishing Alchemy by Harry Patz, Jr.
Author of The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s “Everybody says, ‘I should …
Open Blog Weekend: Anesthetic by Faith Cotter
There were four things I was absolutely sure that I loved as a teenager: reading, writing, horseback riding, and medicine. …
Open Blog Weekend: Writing for Social Justice by Kate Robinson
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say. ::: F. Scott …
Open Blog Weekend: Don’t Crack Under Pressure by Jan M. Leotti
Part I: Your Publishing Team Assembling a publishing team for your first novel is a daunting task, but once you’ve …
Open Blog Weekend: Ambition by Sue Millard
March 1838 It was a cheerless wet morning down at Woodside Ferry. The drifting drizzle was so thick it was …
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
We live in a remarkable time for the publishing industry. As traditional publishers merge and traditional booksellers struggle to stay …