A Parting Glass –Young Adult Novel
A deftly crafted and engaging story of hope and transformation. TESS BANION, author Find out more Oh, Sweetie, monsters are real, and they look like people. elizabeth O’Sullivan is an …
GUEST BLOGGER: Kathleen Kaska
Eighteen years after discovering the murdered body of her grandfather in the foyer of the historic Galvez Hotel; reporter Sydney Lockhart returns to Galveston; Texas to cover a story. Instead; …
The Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series
The Mrs. Maisel of the mystery world, Sydney Lockhart, takes you on a thrill-ride as she searches for the next killer.
5 QUESTIONS for AUTHORS
There are FOUR kinds of reviews an author can receive APPLES, ORANGES, PEARS, AND PEACHES.
And The Question Was: WHO IS A REVIEWER?
There are FOUR kinds of reviews an author can receive APPLES, ORANGES, PEARS, AND PEACHES.
A SHORT HISTORY OF PUBLISHING
Reading a book without paper or ink! How incredible is that! If you suggested the possibility of eBooks in the 15th century, you might have been burned at the stake as a witch!
CIPHERING THE CRYSTAL BALL OF FUTURE BOOK SALES
Local bookstores were just beginning to make a come-back from the 2008-9 Big Recession, when the pandemic blew writers and booksellers dreams away.
DESPERATE AUTHORS TURN TO FANTASTICAL EBOOK MARKETING MEASURES!
Get those creative juices flowing because marketing during the pandemic is going to take moxi! While marketing books has always been a challenging task for authors, the publishing industry is in turmoil now. Due to COVID 19, shipping and handling are a big problem with average book shipments now 22 – 30 days. This is having a major impact on the availability of some books through distributors like Amazon. In spite of this, intrepid authors are still marketing their books. Here are some tid-bits and tips to help:
PLATFORM: def –
These are ongoing activities that really cannot begin until a writer has developed their platform. The author platform is like a house woven of words. Those words make one author distinct from another — each author’s special pattern-of-patter making each house unique, so to speak. An author platform provides a structure the author can then begin to fill. Words — like living room furniture that reflect one’s tastes — decorate the platform and call to passerbys, “Hello! Something’s interesting here!”
Publish During a Pandemic?
One way of working for change is to voice your perspective, to write about it. It is true that the voices heard most loudly are those of people in power, and they may use their loud voices to convince others of the perspective that benefits them, and might even convince others to act against their own self-interest. But sometimes writers who write outside of their personal experience expose the wrong-doings of people in power.
