BestSelling Reads authors are doing it again — giving away a virtual boxed set of five signed paperbacks in the BSR October giveaway. How does it work? From BSR’s own blog: The grand prize winner gets to choose a total of five titles, choosing from all the books available by BSR member authors. Five titles from one author, […]
I have reviewed a number of books by independent authors lately: Rachel Thompson, Bruce Blake, Seb Kirby, Doug Dorow, Chris Ward and of course RS Guthrie. All the reviews that I have published on this blog have been very positive: four or five stars out of five. I thought I would now explain how I […]
Emblazon is a new group of authors who write for readers aged 11 to 14 has just launched a new blog dedicated to the art and science of writing for this special audience. “Some call them upper middle grade; others call them low young adult. They’re somewhere in the middle and can lean either way. […]
Aww, isn’t that cute? My mighty sons are both busy writing novels. Thinking about that raises a whole bunch of different emotions.Their books actually seem like good ideas. Evan, the elder, is writing a spoof of 50 Shades of Grey, set in Montreal and involving pirates. The hero is a lifeguard, of course (Evan is […]
“The global electronic marketplace is rapidly depleting authors’ income streams,” wrote Scott Turow, author and President of the Authors Guild., in an op-ed in the New York Times in April. E-books, pirated copies and changes to copyright laws will cause the “slow death of the American author.” Photo: Evan Long by Creative Commons Turow documents […]
Creative Commons licence It should be. It should be the easiest thing in the world to write about. But it’s not. Last month in the New Republic magazine, commercially published author Sam Lipsyte wrote about the challenges he faces when confronting a sex scene in a novel: We might have the tendency to quickly cover […]
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