Becoming a Novelist: Five Principles to Success

Six days into National Novel Writing Month, I have written over 10,000 words and met my goal of about 1700 a day. Twenty-five more days to the finish line for (working title) To and Fro Upon the Earth. In the last post, I described how I had chosen a general thematic concept, the literary style, and chosen…

The best books in the world will not sell if no one knows about them; the best essay, paper, or blog posts won’t be read if no one sees a link to it. We hope you are doing some promotion of your work, whatever it may be: on your website, through a FaceBook page, on…

Advice on marketing for authors. By fantasy and Sulis Author, S.D. Reeves
Marketing articles is a rather dubious thing for writers. First, the topic is almost an eldritch evil (deadlines are another, but let’s not load up on shouldn’t-be-named subject matters). Unfortunately, some things do need to be discussed, and promotions are the sort that shouldn’t be skipped. Because whether we do a promotion or not, we can’t avoid their costs.

In four previous posts, we discussed how to format your manuscript to prepare it for print, prepare it for ebook versions, design a cover, published as a print copy through Createspace, and prepared an ePub for Kindle and iBooks.  This post will describe how to set up and upload your ePub to Kindle and to iBooks. Here are the steps of the…

In the past, pretty much the only way to publish your book was to get a traditional publisher to accept it. But, as we all know, the publishing landscape has changed, and self-published books now can be seen to be just “as good as” a traditionally published book. Bernadette Geyer’s article on Funds for Writers notes the…