11 Ways Writing Improves Your Mind, Body and Spirit
This is a guest post by Sierra Delarosa. Sierra is a freelance writer, musician and content writer for Global English Editing. 11 Science-Backed Ways Writing Improves Your Mind, Body, and Spirit For many of us, writing is a practical tool. We use it to communicate our...
Autumn Birt Shares Her Results From 30 Days Of FREE Book Promotion
My author friend Autumn Birt recently shared her results with promoting a free book on various smaller promo site. Specifically, she wanted to test her hypothesis that by submitting two different free books (one fantasy and one thriller) on several free advertising...
What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?
https://youtu.be/9foi342LXQE?t=41s Yes, I borrowed the title from the well-known Month Python sketch from Life of Brian. Knowing my interest in religions and history, Electra got me The Evolution Of The West by Nick Spencer, based on a recent review by The Economist...
The Battle of Fennel Bay: Myths and More Myths
Pearseus: Endgame, the nail-biting (if I do say so myself) conclusion to the Pearseus series, ends not with a whimper, but with a bang. With quite a lot of bangs, in fact, the greatest of which occur during the Battle of Fennel Bay. This is not-so-loosely based on the...
January’s Free Stuff and Giveaways
January seems to be a particularly good month for reading. Or, if you're like me and have a bulging tbr list as it is, a particularly bad one, as there's a number of awesome giveaways. Not just of the "one lucky winner gets it all" kind, but of the "come feast upon...
#PoweredByIndie: Amazon’s Latest Indie Initiative
Chris McMullen alerted me to a brand new Amazon initiative that aims at supporting Indie authors: the #PoweredByIndie hashtag. Amazon is encouraging indie authors to use the #PoweredByIndie hashtag on relevant social media posts, namely your own writing resolutions...
Free Paper Textures and Tutorial
I do a lot of my own design work, and I know that many of you do, too. I guess it's one of the perks of being an Indie author; for better or worse, the only limit to what we do is our imagination. And our skills. Which is why I thought you'd enjoy these links that...
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
While I wait for your feedback on what kind of posts to focus on this year, I will kick off this year's posts with a seemingly unusual question: What do you get when you combine history with a murder mystery? Answer: The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child...
Help Me Write The Kind Of Posts You Enjoy Reading
With the coming of the new year, I realized I am now entering my fourth year of blogging. In this time, I have published some 800 posts. Some were more successful than others, of course, during my experiments with various formats and topics. As I was looking back and...
Happy New Year! Or Is It?
Happy New Year everyone! And yet, while the champagne is still chilling, I can practically see many of you rolling your eyes and groaning. For many, 2016 was quite the disaster. What good can Brexit possibly bring in 2017? Or Trump, to be sworn in as POTUS in a mere...
A Fantasy Tip from History: Book Shrines
In a recent post, I described the many ways Medieval scribes and readers would transport their treasured books. There was one kind of book in particular that demanded its own post. Enter the Irish cumdach or ‘book shrine’. As Erik Kwakkel of Leiden University...
A Fantasy Tip from History: Travelling Books
My Kindle has a couple of thousand books in it. Yes, thousand. Its size? smaller than most of my books and small enough to fit my jacket's inside pocket. Nowadays, we barely spare a thought for the amazing fact that we can carry with us more books than an entire...