How to Write and Sell Your Novel, Part 2

Have you always wanted to write and sell a novel but weren't sure where to start? Here are time tested and proven tips on writing, agents, publishers and marketing

How Self-Published Books Create Highly Profitable Businesses

When you use your self-published books as a sales tool to identify customers and make additional sales, then your self-published books become a money-generating tool that can drive a million-dollar business.

Insider Dreams-911 Novel

Two weeks can be a lifetime. Just ask Ben James character, Wade Foster in the September 11 thriller, 'Insider Dreams', which hit the bookshelves in 2006. The suspenseful plot chronicles the lives of four individuals over the two weeks leading up to the attack on the World Trade Center.

How to Write and Sell Your Novel

Have you always wanted to write and sell a novel but weren't sure where to start? Here are time tested and proven tips on writing, agents, publishers and marketing

Alternative Resources for Book Review

Often I am asked how does one go about getting reviews for a novel. Most authors I have met over the years have been under the impression that the only valid reviews are found in the newspaper or in a trade periodical. While such reviews can be a feather in an author's cap, particularly if they are positive, they should not be considered the only source of PR for a book.

A Writer's Journey Part 2 - Putting It All Together

How to self publish your book. Then how to get it out 'there'.

Traditional Publishing or Self Publishing

We all have a book inside us busting to get out and I wanted to share my experience between traditional publishing and self publishing since I have experienced both.

Self Publishing: Is this the Way to Publish Your Book?

Not only does self publishing offer you the advantages of complete control, faster publication, and higher profits, it is easier and less expensive than it has ever been before thanks to modern technology. Self publishing could be your big break as a writer.

A Writer's Journey Part 1 - Getting Started

Phew! I have just finished writing my eighteenth manuscript in a series of children’s adventure books. What a triumph of mind over matter!

Bargain Book Section - a Great Place to Look For Presents

Bargain books used to be a resigned for specialty stores dealing with that genre only. However, with in the past ten to fifteen years the majority of bookstores have become superstores that have a wide variety of books available for the average reader

How a Writing Circle Can Help Get You Published

Want to get your book published? A writer's circle could give you everything you need!

Reality Check:Anyone Can Be a Published Author

The self-publishing industry has grown by leaps and bounds thanks to advances in digital printing, and of course the Internet as a promotional and sales tool. Like many other Internet-driven opportunities, the self-publishing field is fraught with hazards and wrapped in confusion. These days, it's so easy; anyone can be a published author. Self-publishing is the way, and marketing is the key.

The Berge Istra, A Sad But True Story

In 1971 I was the senior surgeon on the P&O liner Orcades. It was coming home from Australia time. 24 hours out of Freemantle in the middle of the night there was a summons to the Radio Room for an urgent medical consultation with an unnamed ship’s master

The Other Side of Medicine - High Blood Pressure, How Helpful a Concept

Hypertension doctors are taught is an asymptomatic risk factor. It is not an illness and it is definitely not a disease. But try telling that to us patients, we just don’t and never will believe doctors. To the average patient hypertension is a bodily reality. They can feel it.

How Not To Get Published - How To Win the WWOTYA - 4, The Length

The length of a novel has to depend on the story, not on the writer's whim; still less on the publisher's. The length of a text is the right one if nobody wonders about it.