It’s always interesting when we get feedback from self-publishing authors. In most cases, it’s along the lines of “Wow, great work! Let’s go with it”. Sometimes it’s “Almost there, is there any way you could […]

Seeing your naked book be taken away to be clothed can be a harrowing experience for an author. No matter how many times your Grandma tells you otherwise, people do judge books by their covers. […]

FIRST TIME AUTHORS: Do you have the world’s next literary masterpiece sitting dejectedly in your PC’s documents folder? Does this gold-encrusted piece of genius simply need to be available to the general public? Have you […]

The following tidbits of advice are SO DARNED OFFBEAT that they’ll include neither ‘reach for the STARS!’ nor ‘be true to yourself’. Not to say those sentiments aren’t as important as they are trite. 1. […]

A picture tells a thousand words. What if my book has 50,000? Yes indeed, choosing a book cover image can seem an impossible task. You’re a writer, not a designer. You wrote a terrific book. […]

While it was tempting to make this article a two-worder that read Comic Sans (and if you don’t get that reference, you can kindly leave), I’ll restrain myself. As with any piece of design, book […]

EDITING. Can I get a ‘Uuuggghhh’? Self-publishing can be, at times, a whimsical, liberating profession. At other times – specifically, at editing times – it can be a freakin’ drag. It’s like you’re trying to […]

If you’re creative, then you’re creative. Case closed. If you’ve got the ability to string together a combination of the same 26 letters in a way which produces a novel-length masterpiece, that has a reader […]