Rob Bignell

Do You Need Extra Services a Print on Demand House Offers?

As you go through the self-publishing process, you might find the array of tasks before you overwhelming – design a book cover, get a photo of yourself, proofread the manuscript, format the text, upload the text, pen a cover blurb, write then send out press releases, etc. etc. etc. – and you’re a writer, notContinue reading “Do You Need Extra Services a Print on Demand House Offers?”

Writing Affirmation: A Real Writer Doesn’t Quit

The moment you write – even if not a published author – you are a writer. The moment you stop, you cease to be one. And by “stop” I don’t mean pause for the day so you can sleep, cook or shower. I mean when you give up on writing, thinking you’ll never master theContinue reading “Writing Affirmation: A Real Writer Doesn’t Quit”

Web Text Demands Different Kind of Writing Style

Most people read websites by scanning. That is, they don’t read every word but skim over the page, searching for words that are of interest to them. Once they find those words, their reading may slow to include every word, as if they were reading a magazine article or a novel. Indeed, website visitors readContinue reading “Web Text Demands Different Kind of Writing Style”

Great Writing Quotes by Author P.G. Wodehouse

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write. I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit. It hasContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author P.G. Wodehouse”

How to Write a Press Release for Your Book

If you’re trying to promote your book, you’ll almost certainly want to write a press release. A press release is an article you send to mainstream media (such as newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations), bloggers and website editors to bring attention to some newsworthy event. In your case, that event may be theContinue reading “How to Write a Press Release for Your Book”

Follow Heinlein’s Rules to Land Big Book Deal

Robert Heinlein

Great Writing Quotes by Author James Baldwin

One writes out of one thing only – one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. Talent isContinue reading “Great Writing Quotes by Author James Baldwin”