Opinions: What Makes a Writer? – Feedback on Important New Research
Writers, Unite! – Calling Indie Authors to Influence an Important New Survey about Writing
Writing: On Coming Out as a Writer
When Mari Howard performed this poem at the recent Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, it immediately chimed with the other authors…
ALLI Author Keith Dixon on Steven Pinker’s “The Sense of Style”
Steven Pinker is well known as a writer on the relationship between linguistics, psychology and evolution, with books such as…
Opinion: Self-Censorship & Self-Expression in Self-Publishing
As he launches "No Exit", a dark novelette about suicide and murder, indie author and campaigner Dan Holloway considers the…
Writing: Are Writers Born or Made?
How and when did your journey as a self-published writer begin? As a child, were you "always reading"? Did you…
The Alliance of Independent Authors Watchdog Warning: New Self-Publishing Resource from Writers & Artists
Another once-venerable publishing brand, Writers & Artists, an imprint of the Bloomsbury group, is showing little regard for writers as…
BookCrossing. 50 Ways to Reach Your Readers #13
While no one is ever going to find a formula to guarantee your book those all important word of mouth…
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…
Superb Self Publishing – the Motherlode for Overgrounding
Self publishing is at the cutting edge of the most interesting, radical and provocative writing that's happening right now. Dan…
Authors: How To Protect Your Writing Time
Kelly McClymer counts the ways.
Writers, especially self-published writers, often feel like they need a time bodyguard. There are always other pesky things to do like raise children, make dinner, do laundry, work. When I first began to write, I dreamed of the day I'd get an advance big enough I could justify holing up in my office for a full day of uninterrupted writing time.
Despite a dozen published novels, that day never came. I chalked it up to my inability to snag that coveted seven figure advance, and kept on writing, working, cooking, and cleaning (well…talking about cleaning, at least).