David Gaughran throws down the gauntlet in his excellent blog post The Author Exploitation Business . He writes: [Being a writer is] a ...

I love carnivals and respect the hardworking folk who run them, but ever since I read Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz I've associated t...

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

What is Wattpad?  For writers, Wattpad is a creative, welcoming and completely free community to connect with readers from around the w...

Ewan Morrison has made a number of incendiary remarks about the future of self publishing and social media. He believes that self publish...

When I was a child, I dreamt of becoming an author and being published by Penguin. (Yes, I was an odd child, but that's a post for ...

Last year David Gaughran used to list how much he was making from the sales of his books, what he was doing in terms of promotion, where ...

David Gaughran writes that, "Word-of-mouth is the only thing that ever really sells books." While a glowing review in the New Yo...

There is an excellent article about David Gaughran's book, Let's Get Digital , over on Mark Williams International . David's...