Exploring Kickstarter in 2024
A Fresh Look at Innovations and Crowdfunding Strategies for Authors Tanya Nellestein Kickstarter has long been a dynamic platform for creators to bring their projects to life, and 2024 is no exception. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that empowers creators to turn their ideas into reality by engaging with a community of backers. Creators set […]
Creative Couplings
For Three Authors and Their Partners, a Writing Career Offers a Chance to Show They Care In the solitary world of indie authorship, where the journey of crafting words into stories is often a lone endeavor, the role of a supportive partner becomes immeasurably valuable. Beyond the quiet hours spent typing away at keyboards and […]
Five Authors, Five Different Publishing Paths: Debunking the Traditional-versus-Indie Debate
The Nuance that’s Sometimes Lost in the Traditional or Indie Debate Tanya Nellestein Authors, take your corners! It’s the indie-versus-trad knock-out round. In the indie corner are the authors with complete creative control, slaves to no master, with the freedom to chart their own course. In the trad corner are the authors with editorial and […]
The Indie Author’s Guide for Navigating Contracts as a Small Business Owner
As small business owners, indie authors deal with a lot of contracts—both those we need to sign and, in some cases, those we create. Whether it’s a collaboration with a coauthor, hiring an editor or cover designer, or tied to an event you’re planning to attend, contracts are a vital part of our professional journey. […]
10 Tips for: Threads
10 Tips for: Threads If you have previous experience with X, originally Twitter, Meta’s new text-based social media app for Instagram users, Threads, will feel familiar to you. With similar content-sharing capabilities and a limit of five hundred characters per post, the focus, as the name implies, is creating conversation threads with followers on topics […]
The Socials Experiment
Can Authors Leverage Generative AI for Their Social Media Strategy? Social media, in all its guises, is a fabulous way for authors to showcase their wares. We can promote our work and potentially attract a dedicated audience who will derive ongoing value from our writing and hopefully provide an income through future sales. However, for […]
Embracing Change and Celebrating Romance at the 2023 Romance Writers of Australia Conference
In the ever-evolving world of literature, the Romance genre stands as a juggernaut, captivating readers with tales of love, passion, and connection. The 2023 Romance Writers of Australia (RWAus) annual conference marked a pivotal moment in the association’s thirty-two-year history, ushering in a new era of growth and collaboration. With sponsors like Harlequin, Draft2Digital (D2D), […]
Polishing Your Prose
Professional Editors Underline the Vital Art of Line Editing Ernest Hemingway famously said “write drunk, edit sober.” But what if you were still a little hungover when you learned about each of the different styles of editing? Each type of revision may play a unique, but no less important, role in the editing process, but […]
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author Ben Wolf Conquers Dragons and the Literary World
In the vast landscape of modern literature, there are authors who possess an uncanny ability to captivate readers with their words, whisking them away to worlds both real and imagined. Among them stands Ben Wolf, the award-winning author of multiple Children’s and Middle Grade books, as well as the Blood Mercenaries Fantasy series and the […]
Ten Tips: BookTube
The social media platform with the biggest potential for 2023—and the foreseeable future—is YouTube, according to marketing guru Adam Erhart. It’s the second most visited platform in the world, and over the past three years, YouTube’s partner program has paid out $30 billion to content creators. BookTube is a thriving subset of YouTube channels that […]