Infographic: Reading Habits that Lead to Success
Steve Aedy, a content creator at FreshEssays.com, contacted me recently to let me know that their team has recently created an infographic called Reading Habits that Lead to Success. They've come up with the idea having read a lot of articles dedicated to habits of...
A Fantasy Tip from Russian History
Six-year-old Onfim stifled a yawn. His teacher was droning on and on about Old Russian alphabet, but Onfim had had enough scrawling letters onto his birchbark notebook. His mind wandered to the really exciting things that Novgorod in 1220 AD had to offer: brave...
5 Great Online Resources for Writers: Guest Post by Isa Cox
When it comes to making it as a writer, there are no hard and fast rules, it seems. For writers who have spent the better part of their lives receiving rejection letters, there’s always the J.K. Rowling story. For the die-hard traditionalists who say you need a...
A Fantasy Tip from Medieval History: Using Parchment
The year is 2099. A group of people is preparing to celebrate New Year's Eve aboard the brand spaceship, Pearseus. Instead, they end up castaways on a remote planet. Three hundred years later, most of the original technology has disappeared. People have regressed to a...
5 Ways to Reduce the Bounce Rate on your Blog
This is a guest post by Karenr Robinson. 5 Ways to Reduce the Bounce Rate on your Blog One of the main problems that a number of bloggers face is increasing bounce rate. Bounce rate denotes the percentage of visitors who come to a blog or website and steer away from...
Writing Tips: a Guest Post by Lincoln Cole
This guest post by author Lincoln Cole is part of a blog tour sponsored by 4Wills Publishing. Writing Tips Tip #1 – Just write. Don’t be afraid to put the words on paper and try new things. Sure, a lot of it won’t work, but some of it will. That first draft can be a...
That Jaw-dropping Moment when Bookbub Mentions your Blog
Why is it that, every time I mention I'll start posting less frequently (last week I announced I'll be posting every 3 days instead of every 2 until the end of August), stuff happens that makes me post almost daily instead? In this case, though, it's for the best -...
UK Indie Lit Fest 2016
Will you be in the UK on the 23rd? If so, you can attend for free the UK Lit Fest 2016 in Bradford. From 9 am to 5 pm you will be able to: Meet authors from around the country Talk to authors from all over the world in the festival's international hub Learn all about...
Beetleypete Reviews “How to Get Good Reviews on Amazon”
Pete, aka Beetleypete, is one of Amazon's top reviewers, with an impressive rank of 3,212 out of the 10,000 top reviewers. When he saw my post on Theo Rogers' book, How to Get Good Reviews on Amazon, he kindly shared his review in a comment. I'm posting it here, as I...
Free eBook: How to Get Good Reviews on Amazon
One of the classic books on getting reviews, How to Get Good Reviews on Amazon: A Guide for Independent Authors & Sellers, is free on Amazon right now. Written by Theo Rogers, an experienced Amazon reviewer, this book takes you behind the scenes and into the...
Western Fault-lines and Ancient Greece
I debated posting this for a while. I hate standing on a soap box, and this is a blog about books, not politics. But there's so much going on worldwide at the moment that I've started feeling like an ostrich, hiding my head in the sand. What gave me the final push was...
Pearseus Giveaway!
99c Pearseus July Deal Continuing the summer deals, here is another one: until the month's end, both Pearseus: Rise of the Prince and Pearseus: Mad Water will be available on Amazon for just 99c (normal price: $3.99). Pearseus giveaway Amy Vansant is organizing a...