Helen Sedwik from THE BOOK DESIGNER shares with authors the legalities of publishing a book of quotations they find inspirational, educational, or just plain funny. Their motives are laudable, but is it legal?
AMBER SPARKS | ELECTRIC LITERATURE Google almost any celebrated short story writer – George Saunders, Kelly Link, Alice Munro, Isak Dinesen, Joy Williams – and you’re likely to see the same two words over and over again: “writer’s writer.” Lest you be tempted to exalt that phrase’s use, consider Cynthia Ozick’s description: “Every writer understands […]
Author and Booktrust web editor Nikesh Shukla tells us how he balances a dayjob and writing, all thanks to technology.
DANIELA MCVICKER | BOOK BABY BLOG The more compelling your book description, the more likely people will click to learn more about what you have written, and the more likely they are to make a purchase. You’ve written an amazing book. You’ve gone through a thorough editing process. Your book cover has been designed and […]
JOANNA PENN || THE CREATIVE PENN || SEPT. 2015 I live in central London and every time I travel on the Tube, I see people reading … with headphones plugged in. They are listening to music at the same time as reading. My husband does it at home as well, usually to block out the […]
TERRY WHALIN || THE WRITING LIFE || SEPT. 2015 I’ve always found a deadline helps me get into my chair and get my fingers moving on the keyboard toward the completion of a writing project. In the newspaper business, the deadlines come fast and furious. I would write a story in the morning and it […]
J. ROBERT LENNON | SALON.COM An acclaimed writer wants his students to read more new fiction. They shouldn’t. Most of it is really bad In a recent piece on the Review Review, Dan Chaon writes about the need for young writers of literary fiction to emulate their counterparts in music, and develop an obsessive interest […]
JOEL FRIEDLANDER | THE BOOK DESIGNER As a blogger, you are uniquely suited to become an author. If you have a successful site, meaning one with a large and engaged readership, you have set up yourself to produce bestselling books. You can use your blog effectively to transform yourself from blogger to author. Either blog […]
Terry Whalin | THE WRITING LIFE Recently one of my Morgan James authors contacted me and asked, “Is my book really inside any Barnes and Noble bookstores. It was a good question and I turned to a colleague to find the answer. I learned this particular book had been available to the brick and mortar […]
Clarissa Oon | THE STRAITS TIMES Haruki Murakami has been a companion to a writer from singlehood to motherhood In my 20s and reeling from a break-up, I read everything best-selling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami had written, drowning myself in his prose the way others might in bottles of whisky. I have never been a […]
Lauren Sapala | BLOG For many years it was my dream to be a famous writer. Like, a REALLY famous writer. My idol was Jack Kerouac, and while that was partly because I loved the beauty of his writing (and still do) it was also because of the recognition he achieved. Never mind the fact […]
Joel Friedlander of THE BOOK DESIGNER discusses the importance of designing the ideal book cover to entice people to buy your book.
Novelist Warren Adler, author of The War of the Roses, shares tips and his “secrets” on how to become a successful novelist.
Some people enjoy writing for the sake of it whilst others want to develop and improve. If you fall into the latter category then read this.
Award-winning author Thomas Sullivan, shares his insight on the craft of writing.
If 81 percent of the U.S. population wants to write a book, why do only two percent accomplish that goal? Find out in this interesting article by Nina Amir from THE BOOK DESIGNER.
ALAN RINZLER | THE BOOK DEAL | DECEMBER 2014 THE TIRED OLD STEREOTYPE of a mystery writer as some hard-boiled noir guy with a cigarette in one hand and a tumbler full of whiskey in the other is obsolete. Over. Done. Make way for Sisters in Crime, a nationwide organization of women mystery writers who […]
JOE WIKERT’S DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGIES | DECEMBER 2014 I was at an event last week where an attendee described the following scenario: She discovered an author on the Oyster unlimited ebook subscription service, she read one of their books and then realized the author’s other books aren’t included in Oyster. She was then forced to […]