Writing Tips: 5 Mistakes To Avoid When Injuring Your Fictional Characters
My main character in the ARKANE thriller series (and alter-ego), Morgan Sierra, has been beaten up, stabbed, shot, scratched by demon…
6 Tips for Successful Self-Publishing Outside Your Home Country
Regular readers of the blog and listeners to my podcast know that I am always excited about global opportunities for…
Mobile, Multimedia, And An Audience Of Voracious Readers. Talking Wattpad with Ashleigh Gardner
Forget print. Look at the rise and rise of mobile reading and writing, especially amongst Millennials. In today's show, Ashleigh…
Book Marketing Questions to Help You Sell More Books
If your book isn’t selling what you hoped, you can use these questions as a checklist to determine whether you’ve done…
Your Magic Bakery Of Intellectual Property Rights With Dean Wesley Smith
As an author, you create a piece of art. But you also create an intellectual property asset that you can…
Polarities Of Book Marketing. Where Do You Sit On The Scale?
Book marketing is not a monolithic thing, it doesn't happen at one single time, and your marketing activities will change…
Balancing Ambition And Contentment. Lessons Learned From Thrillerfest 2017
In today's show, I talk about my lessons learned from Thrillerfest 2017 on balancing ambition and contentment, the current publishing…
How Walt Disney Made Me A Better Writer
Authors are used to creating alone, but most creative industries work in teams and this is spreading into the writing…
9 Ways To Get The Very Best Out Of Your Book Cover Designer
A great cover design is one of the best ways to help your book get noticed because readers DO judge…
Real Artists Don’t Starve. Creativity And Money With Jeff Goins
It's time to banish the poor author back to the garret and explode the myths of the penniless creative. Choose…