In today's lesson, I am going to show you how you can effectively create your own book-signing event, effortlessly. This process will take you less than an hour, and the result may attract hundreds, and maybe thousands of visitors to your book-signing events.

Localized book-signing event is critical to every independent authors because of the impacts it can create for author's professionalism and book sales. I don't know if you are aware of this, but your friends and family…

Let us embark on a journey together. I am pursuing my dream of becoming a famous author. Follow with what I post here on the internet and support my efforts in whatever way suits you, such as buy and read my books, or if you are in Portland Oregon, attend some of my events. In return, I will provide you with novels to entertain, move, stir you up, and inspire you. At the events we will have…

    I almost hate telling people that I'm a writer because almost every single one of them immediately asks the same stupid question: "Where do you get your ideas from?"



    If you meet a chef do you ask him/her, "How did you decide what kind of food you like to cook?" Do you ask the major league baseball player, "How did you figure out how to catch that third-inning fly ball?" Would you ask someone, "Why did you decide to fall in love with that woman?"



    You…

APub.com is a well kept secret to a lot of people, including writers and publishers, because it is supposedly the top publishing brand of Amazon.com. While the KDP Direct is open to the general public - to publish their ebooks - APub is directly the opposite. In order for any writer to become a member of APub, he or she must first be a…

In 1999 after 14 years of marriage, my second marriage ended in divorce. In 2008, I decided it was time to honor a lifelong dream and write a book, something my ex-husband refused to allow me to do – he saw my time spent writing as time spent neglecting him. I sent a brief synopsis to family and friends and their reactions were typically blunt: “It sounds like the same old sob story!” “Some things just don't need to be said!” My family's reaction to my entire life was always…

www.tinagayle.net   I believe the best way for Authors to get their books out to the world is by teaming up with other authors. That's why I like to do an Author Exchange ever so often.

Right now, I'm doing the #FallingIntoLove Author Exchange…

When it comes to promoting your book, you have to spend money to make money.

How many of you have been told that?

The first time I heard it, my heart filled with desolation. I live in the…

This blogpost is dedicated to bringing attention to the idea that certain books should bebanned because of questionable content or language. Many books are pulledfrom public schools and public libraries because a few people want to impose their beliefs upon the majority of the population. I personally think that it is dangerous. 

I was brought up with the…

Ending a dystopian-type novel has its problems. If you end on a cheerful note, it may spoil the nature of the rest, but if the ending is simply depressing, I fear the reader may not come back for other books on your list. I faced this problem in my novel Troubles. The backstory is that the world had done nothing much about replacing oil, all economies had collapsed,…

Are you a SLIder ?     Do you have H.V.S.  ?       In my Sci-Fi Series… The Eve Project… Ben Harris is and does.  He destroys any unshielded electronics, sets fire to ATMs, coffee machines and unwittingly sends devastating arcs of electricity to anything metal.   He suffers from B.C.E.D.  He has spent his entire life trying to hide his ailment from prying eyes.  

What many readers are unaware of is the fact that his condition is a real one.  In my book I called it…

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder…

A review for "Conflicted" from esteemed author and screenwriter James Dalessandro: "If the law ever produced a more colorful character than Steve Eggleston himself, I'd probably be afraid to meet him. Eggleston has taken that colorful, irreverent personae of his - and an encyclopedic knowledge of the law and the…

I’ve been tagged for the Sisters in Crime SinC Up - September Blog Hop by Laurie Stevens, author of the fantastic Gabriel McRay thriller series -- The Dark Before Dawn and Deep into…

At long last! After a year of despair and depression, I am thrilled to announce my new novel, The Brede Chronicles, Book 1, First Realm Publishing!

Just when I thought I'd never produce another book, two characters sprang to life last year and obsessed me with their unusual, sometimes dark, relationship. Funny thing is I couldn't stop writing this book even with the…

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With the secret revealed by AnyAudience, and the combined skills gathered from KdXray, we can now effectively…

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The Azon Profit system is an 18 (and growing) video course on how to create your first Kindle book and how to build a list of leads with Amazon traffic. The description for each video are listed below:

• How to research top profitable niches and get content creation strategies guaranteed to produce successful Kindle…

A Piece of Heaven

First we have Trina's story...