What would I do without The Passive Voice Blog ? I shudder to think! Passive Guy (aka David P. Vandagriff ) tweets the best, most interes...

It looks like Joe Konrath has returned to blogging. And what a return! He writes: In the past seven days, on Kindle, I've made abou...

"If science fiction is escapist, it's escape into reality," Isaac Asimov  "... writing is survival. Any art, any ...

A few days ago I talked about the strategy of making books permanently free to increase sales. (See: Writers: How To Use Permanently Free...

I discovered Lindsay Buroker's blog only within the last few months but within that brief time it has become one of my favorites. A ...

" workstation " by striatic under CC BY 2.0 Tonya Kappes has written a fantastic article on how to get honest reviews for y...

" Roaring Lion " by Tambako the Jaguar used under CC by 2.0 . Awesome business post from Kris Rusch today! She talks about r...

Amazon's Top 100 Authors It used to be that only books were ranked against one another but now Amazon is doing it to authors. The q...

How Tabitha King rescued her husband's manuscript of Carrie from the trash is one of my all-time favorite stories. I've heard it...

This is from the blog of Kris Rusch: ... I got something from a New York Times bestseller who, in the middle of a contract negotiatio...

I'm late to the party! Hodders released Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan's ebook, A Face in the Crowd , August 21st. A Face in...

Seth Godin I know I just posted an article on Seth Godin and I don't usually do two articles in a row on someone, but his intervie...

Amanda Hocking took the self-publishing world by storm in 2011. She "sold over a million copies of her nine books and earned two m...

Library Direct, a service that allows libraries to acquire and loan out books available from Smashwords, has the ability to put your book...

Courage I love Dave Farland's Daily Kick in the Pants and today's post was especially good: Finding The Courage To Write, Part...