US novelist Brian Freyermuth describes the thrill of being accepted as a member of a prestigious genre writers’ organisation, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), which has now opened up to indie authors. I’ve had some amazing moments in my life, from meeting and marrying my wife, Juliet, to the birth of […]
Freedom to write in the genre of your choice, and to swap and to blend genres, is one of the many advantages of being an indie author. You can write what you want to write, and worry about the genre later – and even invent one of your own, if your work doesn’t neatly fit […]
American self-published fantasy novelist Samantha Warren draws our attention to the growing market and potential success of serial fiction, drawing on her own experience as the author of a best-selling ten-part sequence of novellas about vampires. The Penny Dreadful Gets a New Skin Ce-re-al [seer-ee-uh l]: any plant of the gra… Se-ri-al [seer-ee-uh l]: anything […]
Karen Myers, American self-published author, provides a helpful and comprehensive case study of how she sourced new book covers for her latest fantasy series. Two years ago when I started writing The Hounds of Annwn series, I used images by a prolific Russian surrealist artist that I found on stock photo sites. (You can see […]
British historical novelist Richard Denning explains the very popular Snowflake Method for planning and writing novels, illustrated by examples from one of his seven YA (young adult) novels, The Last Seal. As a a self-published author of historical fiction and historical fantasy, I use the Snowflake Method to help me write novels. It was invented […]
Polish-born British author James Calbraith condenses his experience of his first year as an indie author into five top tips that worked for him. A year ago, I published my first novel, The Shadow of Black Wings. Since then, I have published a few more books; I have now sold 8000 copies of all my books put […]