Drawing on lessons learned from her journey to stage and furthering her studies through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition®, Jane provides her unique insights on the body-mind connection, and how you can easily apply these lessons to your everyday life.
Read moreFeatured Author: Jane Curnow
Jane Curnow grew up in Melbourne, Australia with a middle-class background and is proudly a fifth generation Australian from English heritage.
Read moreUndone by the Star
Romance isn’t on the agenda in... Undone by the Star!
Read moreBook Cover Reviews: All Things Cease to Appear
The recently published All Things Must Cease by Elizabeth Brundage is a dark, riveting, beautifully written book—by “a brilliant novelist,” according to Richard Bausch—that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder.
Read moreSelf-Publishing your Thesis
After a long, hard slog, you’ve finally completed your thesis. Your supervisor has lavished you with praise and suggested you should get it published. Full of naieve enthusiasm you send copies of your thesis to publishers, sit back and wait for the royalties to come rolling in.
Except they don’t. The truth is that publishers don’t publish dissertations – they publish books. And the two are quite different. Your thesis was produced to demonstrate your research capabilities. The harsh reality is that no one really wants to know how good a researcher you are.
Read more5 things you could be doing to keep your readers engaged (in addition to blogging)
It's an unfortunate truth that once the book is uploaded to Amazon, we cannot just sit back and watch the checks come rolling in. We need to market our books.
As an experienced author, you already know this of course. You probably already have your own website and blog and you are probably diligently posting every week. But what else can you do to keep your online readers engaged? Here are five ideas that work.
Read moreBook Covers - US vs UK
Every now and again we take time to compare covers from the UK and the US. Last time we we looked at V.E. Schwab's book A Gathering of Shadows. This time we have a bumper collection for you. In all cases the US versions are on the left. Share your analysis in the comments.
Read moreBook Cover Reviews: We've Already Gone This Far
As regulars on this site will know, sometimes I like to write about some of my favorite recent book cover designs.
Today, I'm admiring this beauty from Lucy Kim for Patrick Dacey's We've Already gone This Far. Lucy is a New York based designer working for Henry Holt. Prior to that, Lucy was at Penguin Group for 14 years.
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Designing the interior of your book
Interior design is something that is often considered secondary to most of the different aspects of self-publishing a book. You need a great story. You need great editing. You need a great cover, to draw people in. You need great marketing, to get it out there.
But interior design? Meh.
Read moreThe Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlists 2016
The shortlists for this year’s CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced.
Read moreJudging Presidential Candidates by their book covers
At time of writing, there are five candidates in the running to become the next President of the United States of America. The internet is crawling with pundits offering their advice on who we should chose and why. But no one seems to have judged them by their book covers. Until now. In this article we throw party politics to one side, avoid debating whether America needs to be 'great again', or 'whole again' and focus on the one thing that truly matters – the quality of their book covers.
Read moreBook cover review: A Gathering of Shadows
This month saw the launch of the second book in V E Schwab's Shades of Magic series. The book was released in the UK and the US simultaneously – and each region opted for a different cover. Lets take a look:
Read moreOld Baggage
It took most of her life, but Elizabeth Donovan has finally had enough. After years of a difficult marriage, she has finally fought back. She had no choice but to leave the life behind and face the secret from her youth. The old life doesn’t want to let go, as she stumbles into the mystery that involves her deeper than she ever could imagine.
Read moreOver to you: Margaret Lake on her journey through cover design
I asked some of the lovely authors over at http://www.kboards.com/ to share their experiences of developing their first cover. Some decided to do it themselves, some worked with designers. All of them learned from the experience and have shared their thoughts here so you can learn from them too.
Today Margaret Lake shares her journey through the design of her books' covers.
Read moreOver to you: H Lynn Keith on developing the cover for Heart of Stone
I asked some of the lovely authors over at http://www.kboards.com/ to share their experiences of developing their first cover. Some decided to do it themselves, some worked with designers. All of them learned from the experience and have shared their thoughts here so you can learn from them too.
Read moreOver to you: Your stories of creating/selecting your first book cover - Part 3
I asked some of the lovely authors over at http://www.kboards.com/ to share their experiences of developing their first cover. Some decided to do it themselves, some worked with designers. All of them learned from the experience and have shared their thoughts here so you can learn from them too.
Read moreOver to you: Anya Allyn on developing the cover for her novel Doll House
I asked some of the lovely authors over at http://www.kboards.com/ to share their experiences of developing their first cover. Some decided to do it themselves, some worked with designers. All of them learned from the experience and have shared their thoughts here so you can learn from them too.
Today we're going to hear from Anya Allyn, author of the spine-chilling Dark Carousel series .
Read moreOver to you: Your stories of creating/selecting your first book cover
I asked some of the lovely authors over at http://www.kboards.com/ to share their experiences of developing their first cover. Some decided to do it themselves, some worked with designers. All of them learned from the experience and have shared their thoughts here so you can learn from them too.
Read moreReviews, Teasers and Taglines – What to put on your book cover?
agline reviews and teasers are used frequently on many of the bestsellers, but seem strangely absent in indie book covers. This is partly down to the often cited advice that everything on your cover should be legible at thumbnail size. This is simply untrue.
Read more1986-2016 How have book covers changed?
Ah, 1986. What a year. Bobby Ewing came out of the shower, Top Cruise felt the need for speed as Top Gun and Aerosmith teamed formed an unlikey partnership with Run DMC to teach us how to walk this way.
But what did we have on our bookshelves?
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