7 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Book Design Right Now by Joel Friedlander
We all want to make our books better, more readable, more attractive to both buyers and reviewers. Here are 7…
Book Registration Basics 101 by Peter Bowerman
A step-by-step cheat sheet covering all the “book-reg” bases!(Material adapted from “The Well-Fed Self-Publisher” by Peter Bowerman)This handout is designed…
Are There Grammar "Rules" for Writing Fiction? by CS Lakin
When it comes to writing fiction, often there are no definitive rules to certain aspects of structuring sentences. In addition,…
Creating a Rock Star Publishing Team for Your Book by Miral Sattar of Bibliocrunch
The book publishing industry is going through the quickest transition because it is the last to go digital. As a…
'Hybrid Authors': An Agent's Perspective by Lara Perkins (agent/Andrea Brown Literary Agency)
The term “hybrid author” has been around for a few years, but ever since a survey of 5,000 authors by…
Rights Grabs and Copyrights by David P. Vandagriff, AKA Passive Guy
Let’s discuss the rights authors own under their copyrights to their books.Although we could talk a long time about what…
Not Playing by the Rules: Genre Mash-Ups in a New Age by Alicia Kat Vancil
Mash What’s?Steampunk adventure. Paranormal romance. Alternative history. We don’t bat an eye at these genres now, but at one point…
How to Sell E-Books without Falling into The No-Value, Time-Sucking Vortex Of Blogging, Tweeting, And FaceBooking by Michael Alvear
You can’t swing a cat without hitting a Kindle marketing article that tells you to use social media to promote…
Words are Cheap by Rachel Aaron
It's been roughly two and a half years since I wrote “How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day…
Serials: Writing For Your Readers by RaShelle Workman
What is a serialized novel? Must READ TV.It isn't a "regular" novel broken into pieces.A large story arc that continues over…
The Three Keys of Self-Publishing by Margaret Brown
As the publisher of Shelf Unbound indie book review magazine and lead judge in our annual writing competition for best…