Emotional Beats: Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, featuring Part 2 of the book: Body Parts. Hands and legs An easy way to...

Scaling Up My Amazon Ads

Well, the title says it all, doesn’t it? Following my small success with Amazon Marketing Services, I’m about to scale up my promotions. I have been reading up on AMS and to reach that goal I’m planning to increase everything, ie: Number of keywords...

The Scandalous Flap Book History

Mary Natalie loves her flap books so much that we now have an assortment of them. My personal favorite is probably Spot, although that was before I realized what a scandalous history flap books have, courtesy of Sarah Laskow of Atlas Obscura. To my great surprise,...

Kathy Steinemann Shares 100 Ways To Shrug

Award-winning author Kathy Steinemann recently shared a great resource: over 100 ways to say “shrug.” As all of my first-draft characters seem to have a nervous tick (which mercifully disappears by the second draft), I appreciated this so much that I just...

Emotional Beats: Out Of The Mouth…

Back in September, I published Emotional Beats: How to Easily Convert your Writing into Palpable Feelings. As promised, I will be posting the book on my blog. So, here is the next installment, featuring Part 2 of the book: Body Parts. This post deals with what...

Hawaiian Pidgin: Hawaii’s Creole Language

What language do modern Hawaiians speak? The answer, as Dan Nosowitz of Atlas Obscura points out, is not nearly as simple as you might think. There are several languages co-existing on the Hawaiian islands: Hawaiian, the Polynesian language of the original Hawaiians...

Celebrate Read Across America With 84 Free Books

To celebrate Read Across America day (March 2nd), Kim Iverson has organized 84 free books into the genres she is featuring – Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. She has also linked to the author’s website below the book’s description. You can consider signing up for...

Author Earnings Report: The Top 12 Trends For 2017

Hugh Howey and The Data Guy have now done all their usual number crunching and published the latest report. What trends can we identify in 2017, based on their impressive (as always) work? 1. For traditionally published books, print is king. 2. However, this reign is...