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

Ever wondered what the value of a book is? Jeff Posey, project manager for Lucky Bat Books, tells us this in his post, What’s Your Novel ...

Jane Friedman recently asked book design guru Joel Friedlander to talk about the dos and don'ts of book design: How Much Attention Sho...

When I posted the other day about how Mike Reeves-McMillan got honest book reviews he mentioned having put together a press kit. Having...

Love it or hate it, E.L. Jame's 50 Shades of Grey series is a huge economic success. I knew that. We all knew that. What I didn...

Book Review Bloggers Honest reviews are one of the best ways of increasing book sales. I know it's anecdotal, but Amanda Hocking cr...

Amazon is acquiring Goodreads . This news shocked me. I hope the wonderful book culture that has developed over at Goodreads doesn't...

The Experiment It's easy to forget that one can have the best prose in the world, but that's not enough to get your story accep...

Because of the success of Wool , Hugh Howey has become a household name. Every self-published author has been inspired by his rocket ride ...

Joe Konrath Makes $15k A Week On His Backlist Titles In Backlist Then And Now Joe Konrath writes: These past two years have been in...

Writers Beware Of Autharium It seems like this is the time of year for scams targeting writers. Passive Guy, aka David Vandagriff, rece...

In John Scalzi's latest blog post, A Contract From Alibi , he writes that Alibi's contract terms are so heinous he wouldn't r...

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...

We've all failed. Seth Godin believes that failing is good but that failing big is even better. Why? Because unless you're failin...

Apparently it's possible for the Blogger.com editor to eat an entire post. I know this because it just happened. (sigh) I think after...

I love Edward Robertson's blog,  Failure Ahoy! , and I recommend it to anyone thinking about publishing their work. Ed is also a wond...