Creative Commons On Saturday, April 12, I’ll be showing my paperback books at the Canadian Author Association’s first-ever Book Fest. If things go right, I may even do some live blogging from there. And if you come, we may even have a chance to meet face-to-face! I know I’m excited about it. I look at […]
I began reading Gae-Lynn Woods’ The Devil of Light in January, at about the same time I started watching True Detective on HBO, the gritty series starring Woodie Harrelson and Matthew MacConaughey, and was immediately struck by the similarities between the two stories. Both stories feature victims of ritual murders, corpses found in bizarre […]
Guest post by David Small, the Wandering Promoter This Monday blog features guest blogger David Small, author, international hockey coach and entrepreneur. His new book, The Wandering Leader, launched on Valentine’s Day and is already climbing the Amazon bestseller lists in non-fiction. David hails from Kenora, Ontario — I town I spent many summer weeks […]
Bestseller Toby Neal has just launched her sixth Lei Crime novel. I asked her how she has changed as an author since she launched the first novel, Blood Orchids, in 2011. I know my characters so well now that dialogue really flows—banter between Lei and her partner, Pono, interdepartmental meetings with Captain Omura, therapeutic phone […]
A guest post by author consultant Barb Drozdowich I’d like to thank Scott for inviting me to share some thoughts today. I’ve published four books focused at helping authors. They cover a variety of subjects and basically represent needs that I see in my day job, teaching authors WordPress and helping them with various social […]
This past January, Digital Book World reported that nearly 80 percent of self-published authors and more than half of traditionally published authors earn less than $1,000 a year from their efforts. That report has generated a lot of debate. Some very honest and brave independent authors have put their own statistics up against this argument: […]
The master of the thriller, Frederick Lee Brooke, stepped boldly into a new genre with his fourth novel, Saving Raine. Written Words joins the blog tour with Excerpt 2 — but first, what’s this book about? It’s 2021, and personal drones are a fixture of daily life, but due to constant upheavals food is scarce. Rival […]