I’ve scoured Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and the internet for groups, pages, blogs, channels and websites specifically aimed at authors, writers and readers. I’ve picked out a few and listed them below to help you get started, but there are plenty more out there to choose from… Facebook pages & groups for Authors/Writers BooksGoSocial Author’s Group […]
The villain or antagonist will usually play a crucial role in any good novel. So, after reading hundreds of novels and watching hundreds of films over the years, I decided to analyse some villains for myself. What exactly makes a good villain and do they fit into different categories? Well yes they do in my […]
I wanted to post something a little more humorous and hopefully somewhat insightful. All of you writers, authors and freelancers out there who don’t adhere to the 9-5 hours and work 7 days a week, this is a post for you. My average writing day doesn’t begin at 6am or even 7am like most people. […]
1) She Never Got To Say Goodbye by Ica Iova A Paranormal Fantasy and Thriller with a splash of Romance. She Never Got To Say Goodbye follows the lives of Olivia an aspiring lawyer, and Brandon the already established lawyer. The story starts off fairly normally, Olivia and Brandon coincidently meet at a restaurant, start […]
We all know how difficult it is to sell books, and for the majority of authors, we just don’t have enough time or funds to market our books in the first place. So I decided to talk to a Marketing Consultant and ask them questions about how to go about marketing books, where to start and […]
Are you a book-lover or know a book-lover? Then here are ten bookish related things just for you, ranging from quirky hotels to delicious cake, this is a list of some of the bookish things you can find online today! 1] Book and Bed Tokyo is a bookstore/library themed capsule hotel. The hotel can sleep […]
Now I am not an expert here at all, and as a new author I’ve only had one encounter with a bookshop so far, to say it went badly would be an understatement. However, I learnt some valuable lessons from that one encounter and I’m going to share those lessons with all of you aspiring […]
Writing is hard. Writing a story with nail-biting suspense and epic plot twists is even harder. How can you give your reader the unexpected, make it believable, and keep them hanging onto every word? I have to talk about a particular author here, one who until recently, I knew nothing about. Let me introduce you […]
I’m sorry this is a boring and long blog but it is REALLY IMPORTANT, so you should read it. I’ve touched on this subject briefly in Blog 2: ‘Becoming a Writer is Like Climbing a Mountain’ and now I am going to go into more detail. In the UK and certainly during my school years, […]
Whatever you’re writing, whether it be a novel, an article, or even a letter, the opening and closing lines are crucial. As an author, I would say that both your opening line and closing line are equally important. Why? Because the opening line will be the first thing your reader will read, and they will […]