Category: about books

  • How to Rate the Reliability-Odds of an Amazon Book Reviewer

    How reliable are Amazon book reviewers, and how can you discover the answer?

  • The birth of a child called Prose

    For an author, the job of being the parent of Prose means a never ending job.

  • The Next Best Thing, an authors’ Blog Hop

    Authors usually have to promote his or her work to find readers, and all I knew about authors Blog Hopping is that it’s sort of like a chain letter where participants answer questions and/or write posts on his or her Blog linked to other authors taking part …

  • Authors Finding Readers – Part 4/4

    It is crucial for an author to identify the interests of his or her potential readers before building and branding a proper Internet platform.

  • Authors Finding Readers – Part 3/4

    Now that we have a better idea about the size of the reading public and its reading habits, how does an author go about attracting the right sort of reader for his or her work?

  • Authors Finding Readers – Part 2/4

    According to consumers, free chapters or sample giveaways had the largest impact on buying e books.

  • Authors Finding Readers – Part 1/4

    This belief is the same as tying fifty-pounds of iron to an infant then throwing the three-month-old child in the ocean expecting him to swim ten-miles to shore.

  • The NEED to Edit – Part 6/6

    The focus of the public schools is reading literacy—not editing literacy and reaching grade-level reading literacy for more than half of the students is a challenge.

  • The NEED to Edit – Part 5/6

    As Amanda Hocking once said, editing is exhausting.

  • The NEED to Edit – Part 4/6

    There are 62 million avid readers in the United States. Most authors must write for this audience.