Tao Te Ching, Greek Style

I apologize in advance to my English-speaking friends, in case this post is of limited interest to them. I promise to make it up in my next one.  I wanted to share that I have now published my Greek translation of the Tao Te Ching. This was an important move for me,...

Thank you!

The new version of my sci-fi collection, The Power of Six, is now live.  There are a number of differences with the old one. The new subtitle explains the main one: the new version contains an extra story by Amos M. Carpenter, who is now a published author, as...

Setting up an Author Platform

Writing a book is hard enough, but marketing it can rapidly become a daunting task.  After months of searching, trying, failing and learning new tips, I discovered that any author, self published or traditionally published, should create an author platform where...

My Rave Reviews Book Club Experience

You may remember how a few weeks ago I wrote a post about my stint as Spotlight Author of the week by the Rave Reviews Book Club.  With the month of May now over, how did that work out for me?  Well, pretty well, actually, thanks for asking! 🙂 Let’s talk...

Writing for Readers

There seems to be a shift of perspective when we become authors.  We move from being just readers into being both authors and readers.  And so, our relationship with books becomes complicated: I find it hard, nowadays, to just read a book.  I will notice verbs,...

How to Get More Blog Followers

My dear friend MMJaye published this awesome blog post today, titled 13 Strategy-Altering Blogging Stats, that was based on a post by Mitt Ray of Social Marketing Writing.  Mitt has taken all blog-related statistics he could lay his hands on and created a superb...

Naming your Characters the Easy Way

I was having this conversation with MMJaye, and she was observing how hard it can be to find the right name for your characters.  First, I was reminded by this hilarious comic by Tom Gauld: Then, I remembered all the research I went through when I was looking for...

Book Marketing: Twitter vs. Facebook

As you know, there is research being done about pretty much everything nowadays.  I recently came across an interesting research by Michelle Bertino on Klout, that studies the reactions on Twitter and Facebook according to different subjects.  Nice guy that I am, and...

What Mad Men Can Teach us About Writing

I have a confession: I’m not a big Mad Men fan.  I know, almost everyone else seems to be, but after watching a couple of episodes, I just didn’t like it.  I couldn’t identify with any of the characters, didn’t like the way people behaved to each other,...