What we Learn from The Publishers Association’s Statistics Yearbook 2014
Continuing on the theme of change in publishing, I came across the latest report by The Publishers Association, released a few days ago. Philip Jones did a great job at going through it, explaining what one can learn from it. Although it refers specifically to the UK...
2004-2014: How the E-book Changed Adult Fiction
This is the first post of two on the subject of changes in publishing. I came across an interesting post by Jane Friedman on the subject, based on a Nielsen presentation by Jonathan Nowell. Studying the last decade, one can reach a number of interesting conclusions....
Short Stories Resources and Submissions
As you may remember, I am putting the finishing touches to Infinite Waters; my upcoming second collection of short stories (the first one being The Power of Six, of course). Most of them have a touch of science fiction; all of them have a lovely twist. However, I have...
Author Feature: Effrosyni Moschoudi
Effrosyni Moschoudi, aka Frostie, is not just a frequent visitor of my blog, but also one of the first friends I made since starting on this strange journey of becoming an author. Turns out she's also a cousin of mine, as we're both from Corfu. However, I had never...
Runaway Smile is an Award-Winning Finalist in the 2015 International Book Awards
I got some exciting news yesterday, which I wanted to share with all of you! USA Book News announced the winners and finalists of THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (IBA) on May 21, 2015. Runaway Smile, my children's book, was an award-winning finalist in the 2015...
The Writer’s Pro Shop Series, Why You Need It – A Guest Post by Hubert O’Hearn
A free series of writing exercises - AND free blog content? I seldom reblog, but we should all be aware of this 🙂
Cover Reveal: Death Before Daylight by Shannon A. Thompson
As I mentioned in my cover reveal for her book, Minutes Before Sunset, Shannon A. Thompson is one of my favorite young authors. Not only was this gorgeous lady first published at 16, but she's crammed into her 23 years more writing and publishing experience than most...
Highly (un)Original Short Story Titles
Editor Neil Clarke is editing a number of magazines that accept short stories, including Clarkesworld Magazine, a Hugo Award-winning and World Fantasy Award nominated science fiction and fantasy magazine, and Forever Magazine. He recently reported they had just...
Rate your Book Cover
I'm currently finishing my second collection of short stories. In fact, once I'm done editing the last story, the book will be ready! However, I still need to design a book cover. Lorelei Logsdon recently informed me of this great website the other day, and I now...
Cover Reveal: Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts by Charles Yallowitz
Anyone who visits my blog will certainly know my good friend and successful Indie author, Charles E. Yallowitz. You probably remember him from his recent guest post, What I’ve Learned or my author feature. Well, Charles recently finished a short story called Ichabod...
Writing and Body Language
I don't often reblog, but when I stumbled across this great resource of body language, I just had to share. I keep something similar in a word doc, which I always have open when writing. I promise to share, as soon as I have organized it a bit better 🙂
An easy way to sell more books
Effrosyni Moschoudi was the very first one to suggest to me this little trick, and I have since used it with all my books. Now, Jonathan Gunson has written a great post with the same easy way to sell more books, as a comment on a presentation by Goodreads CEO Otis...