Mar 17, 2019 | Publishing
As audiobooks are the fastest-growing segment in publishing, I have been researching that market. One thing I realized is that choosing a narrator is probably the most important decision you make when you turn your book into an Audiobook. People who love audiobooks...
Mar 16, 2019 | Random Musings
This hasn’t been a good week for web companies. Facebook, WhatsUp, Instagram, Google Drive, and Gmail came under unspecified attacks and had trouble or even went offline for hours. In the case of Facebook, the troubles lasted some 48 hours, making this the worst...
Mar 15, 2019 | My Publications
I have some exciting news to share today: Mavifil Yayınları, a Turkish publisher, has asked to translate into Turkish my first children’s books–Runaway Smile and Musiville. We just finished signing the contract, so I can officially share the good news. Not...
Mar 13, 2019 | Fun Historical Facts
As readers of, well, pretty much any of my books will know, I’m not big on descriptions. I favor a swift pace and paint images with broad strokes. This extends even to my characters’ names: I eschew names unless they’re absolutely necessary. So, my...
Mar 11, 2019 | My friends' Guest Posts, Publishing
This is a guest post by Nishil Prasad, a passionate writer, hungry for innovation and new trends and with tons of enthusiasm for uncovering hidden topics. Nishil writes because he loves it. This post contains a list of some great audibles to help your children enhance...
Mar 9, 2019 | Free Stuff, Marketing
In my previous post, I wrote about DIY Book Design; a website that lets you create 3D mockups of your book for free. But that implies you’ve already designed your book cover. And sometimes you need just the right font to do so. Alternatively, you may be...
Mar 7, 2019 | Free Stuff, Marketing
I recently discovered DIY Book Design (thank you, Krystallia!) and just had to share the news. DIY Book Design has a number of useful tools and tutorials, all aimed at helping you produce the perfect image for your book. From a number of tutorials helping with the...
Mar 5, 2019 | Free Stuff, My Publications
*** Read Infinite Waters for free on Kindle Unlimited *** In April 2018, I posted my thousandth post on this blog. To celebrate, I started sharing here all my short stories. Every couple of weeks, I’ll be posting one story from my celebrated Exciting Destinies series...
Mar 3, 2019 | Events and Giveaways
As you may know, my children’s book, Valiant Smile, was published in Greece in December (the English version is still under development, I’m afraid). Yesterday, I had the official presentation at Ianos, one of Athens’ best bookstores. Yes, it was...
Mar 1, 2019 | Random Musings
From your comments, it’s obvious that you most of you hate Gutenberg. Some, however, were on the fence. And a few have actually used it and seemed to enjoy it. There are some advantages to Gutenberg. We will have more control over the layout in native WordPress....
