Long Term Challenges of Book Publishing.
You’re about to have a book published. Are you ready for this event? You might be thinking at the moment, the book is finished, it’s been edited, it’s been re-edited and then it’s been looked over by others, and the…
Book Review: Ru by Kim Thuy
When I heard that the winner of the 2015 Canada Reads contest was Ru: A Novel by Kim Thuy, I was a little shocked. The buzz around the literary world was that Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian was being touted…
The Challenge and Success in Writing Blogs
Are you writing blogs because you want to write or for something else? This is a challenge- using an old typewriter It’s not as if you can interact with each person in the world, and even if you could, there…
Writing Well on The Internet
Writing well on the Internet simply means being smart about it. For most people writing on the web, is about blogging, and for many this will be about making money. Some love, and will swear by Google AdSense, and others…
What Hurts Your Book’s Chances of Sales
You don’t know or you don’t care; it’s published and now you’ve got time to do everything else. This isn’t about the people who have just started in the publishing world and don’t have a book out yet, but rather…
The Facebook Experiment and What Doesn’t Work for a Writing Blog
I’ve always been interested in the fact that some writers will proclaim that to get visitors to their blog means that they will make money with their books. I would assume this to be true for writers who have a…
Breakout Blogger
A couple years ago blogging was a foreign concept to me. I had read the occasional travel blog by a friend, but the idea of an ongoing blog seemed rather…
Creativity, Writers, and the Stress of Success
Creativity is a lot like money for us writers: It doesn’t grow on trees… but we sure as heck wish it did! Some of this month we wanted to dedicate to the creative process and how to turn your creative…
