Opinion: Why Indie Authors Must Meet Professional Production Standards – Including Cream Paper for Fiction!
As self-published authors, we may be thankful for the creative freedom allowed by our independent status - but should we…
Opinion: The Value of Free Books – by Jan Ruth
Self-published novelist Jan Ruth, based in Wales, shares the success story of how she used free book giveaways to raise…
Writing: How To Use the Snowflake Technique to Write A Novel
British historical novelist Richard Denning explains the very popular Snowflake Method for planning and writing novels, illustrated by examples from…
Opinion: Write From The Heart (Not For The Genre)
Choosing to self-publish liberates authors from the need to write within the constraints of fiction genres favoured by trade publishers.…
Writing: How To Turn Your Life Into A Novel
Helena Halme, Finnish author of three self-published novels, offers excellent advice on how to turn fact into fiction effectively, drawing on her own experience of writing The Englishman.
How I Do It: Helen Hollick Shares Her Self-Publishing Success Story
USA Today bestselling historical novelist Helen Hollick is a great example of a hybrid author - trade-published (in the USA)…
Reaching Readers: How to Use BookBlast to Boost Your Book up the Ranking
UPDATE: BookBlast and Book Blast have been registered trademarks of BookBlast Limited since 2008. Jason's company "Book Blast" referred to…
Writing Novels: How to Get the Balance Right Between Fact & Fiction
Lucy McCarraher's personal experience of writing novels challenges the old adage that fiction authors should simply write about what they…
Writing Memoirs: Telling The Ugly Truth in a Beautiful Way
Self-publishing a memoir provided Elaine Pereira with an instinctive way of coping with the loss of her mother to Alzheimer's-related…
Writing: How Poetry Helped My Prose
Self-published writer of novels, poetry, short stories and more, Michael La Ronn describes how his early ventures of writing poetry…
It’s Fiction, People! A Novelist’s View On Reactions To Writing
How much of what a novelist writes is autobiographical? Conversely, if a non-fiction writer changes the names and circumstantial detail…