Can you judge a book by its cover? Probably not. Will your book be judged by its cover? Probably. Here, seven recent articles with excellent insights from folks behind-the-scenes into book cover design: what goes into making a book cover
15 Questions That Will Define Your Book Market
Whether you’re self or traditionally published, writing fiction or non-fiction, published or about to publish, your author marketing will benefit from stepping back to look at the questions publishers ask of a typical book proposal. Why? Because approaching your book
The Dawn of An Emerging Author
Our thanks to author Caylie Jeffery for this guest post… a lovely look at the journey of an emerging author! It’s a chrysalis thing, writing. We start out life as a florist, a nurse, an accountant… then we wake up
Four Fun Infographics Just for Writers
Following the Labor Day holiday we hope all you hard working writers are back from the break with new and creative ideas. But once in a while it’s nice to take a look at the lighter side of this art
Top 10 Writing Tips For Authors From A Screenwriting Guru
Thanks to blogger Alex Strike for this guest post! He is called a guru of screenwriting because it’s difficult to find the exact word describing deeds that have made him popular. If you try to understand what he does, some
Seven Most Useful Writing Apps for Authors
We’ve heard it said enough: “There’s An App” for that – Does it hold true for authors? We’d say so! In fact there are so many cool apps out there geared to writers that it’s hard to narrow ’em down.
Book Markets Continue to Grow!
Some fun and interesting publishing insights today on both the ebook and traditional print book markets: Bowker recently released its 2013 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review. The full report is $799, but their free preview is available