

Questions A Publisher Asks
Independently publishing your book can be a daunting process, but there is hope. Of all the data and requirements you’re bombarded with, about 85% of it is now possible to handle very easily through online publishing, as you will discover. Though you are entering a marketplace in which literally millions of books are published in various formats around the world each year, the good news is that there is plenty of good news. The job of a publisher, though, is to turn a good


Great Story Endings
In finishing your story, you are trying to do two basic things: 1. Make the ending seem like the consequence of everything that has...


5 Hard Truths About Being a Writer
If you are really serious about wanting to make a living from writing, there are five hard-hitting bits of advice that you probably need...


Hyper-Critical Situation # 1
There is a hyper-critical situation which comes before all others for writers, and that is that, though you desperately want to be a...


The Golden Age of Independent Publishing
Markets of various kinds all around the world have been transformed by the rise of the internet, and the world of publishing is no...


The Fascination of Fiction
I've always been fascinated by fiction -what it is, why it works, why we read it. I wanted to know why certain books appealed to me,...


The Seven Pillars of Successful Writing
1. Core Ideas At the heart of whatever it is you want to communicate as a writer is a core, whether that’s a very definite idea that...


10 Tips To Help You Get Published
Real secrets of writing a good story and getting a publisher to pay at least some attention to it are contained in the book How Stories...



