7 fool-proof marketing tips to promote your blog

So, you want to promote your blog? Here are some blog marketing tips on how to do so. Have good content, posted regularly. It’s best if this has a narrow scope. Since I write mostly genre fiction – fantasy and sci-fi – I post things of interest to...

Basic Book Marketing Tips

It’s Sunday afternoon, and it’s raining cats and dogs. Which makes this afternoon even more melancholic than Sunday ones traditionally are. So, I decided to get some work done, hoping to forget the sad weather outside (on the upside, the garden badly needed some...

More Covers: The Power of Six

Following everyone’s private and public feedback on the cover of my new book, an anthology of short sci-fi stories, I’m pleased to report that I’ve now made more changes. No one can accuse me of ignoring your feedback, as I’ve changed the cover...

Cover Help Needed!

I’ve spent most of today designing the cover for my short science fiction stories collection, titled “Six Days a Week” (what do you think of the title? Since the collection has six stories, I thought it appropriate.) As is always the case with these...

Beta-readers wanted

Exciting news!  While waiting for my wonderful beta-readers to finish Mad Water, the third book in my epic fantasy series Pearseus, I finished the first draft of another book I’ve had in the works for quite a while now. It’s a collection of six short...

Punctuation in Dialogue

Fiction Editor Beth Hill has written what is possibly the most comprehensive guide on dialogue styling.  I’m copying it from the Editor’s Blog, because I think it deserves to feature prominently as a guide.  Dialogue has its own rules for punctuation....