A new horror magazine will debut January 1, 2008

A new fiction magazine will debut January 1, 2008. Noctem Aeternus will be a FREE quarterly PDF magazine where the reader will find science fiction, fantasy, western, or even mystery stories…but all tales will have an element of horror. “The horror genre sometimes gets a bad reputation for being the shock jocks of the literary [...]

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So… You Want to Start a Book Club

Starting your own book club is a great way to share your love of books with other book lovers. Chances are many book lovers would love to start a club but simply don’t know how, or for some reason think it is difficult. Starting your own book club can be easy, inexpensive, fun, and rewarding. [...]

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Reviewers vs. Bloggers: The Controversy

Reviewing has been a hot subject among kidlit bloggers lately, ever since the magazine n+1 came up with an article about a week ago which criticized—though not in such direct terms—bloggers of not being objective, honest enough with their reviews, of not posting enough negative reviews and of lacing their positive reviews with facile praise. [...]

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On the Spotlight: Thriller Author Cheryl Swanson

How long have you been writing? I started writing stories when I was around seven. When I was thirteen, Arizona Highways Magazine sent me a check for $50 for a short story about riding a mule down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Getting that check hooked me, but I must say it was [...]

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Virtual Book Tour Primer

Virtual Book Tour Lesson One What is a virtual book tour? Like a regular book tour, you go around talking about your book, yourself, and your writing. The ultimate goal, of course, is to generate sales, but mostly, you’re creating a buzz in hopes that people who might otherwise never learn about your work have [...]

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The Harrowing, by Alexandra Sokoloff

The Harrowing By Alexandra Sokoloff St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 0-312-35748-6 Copyright 2006 Hardcover, 224 pages, $21.95 Horror The Breakfast Club meets The Shinning in this engrossing, hard-to-put-down novel that will give you a fair amount of chills and shivers on those dark rainy days. It’s Thanksgiving break at Baird College and most students are getting [...]

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1001 Ways to Market Your Books, by John Kremer

1001 Ways to Market Your Books by John Kremer Open Horizons www.bookmarket.com ISBN: 0-912411-49-X Copyright 2006 (6th Edition) Trade Paperback, $27.95, 700 pages Business/Marketing Reviewed by Mayra Calvani If you were able to choose only one book on book marketing today, this would be definitely it. This 700-page monster has all the information any author [...]

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Caridad Pineiro’s World of Vampires

Although writing is a skill that can be learned, I believe some people are born writers. Do you consider yourself a born writer?I definitely consider myself a born writer. Or maybe it might be better to say, a born storyteller. As long as I can remember, I had stories in my head and eventually, I [...]

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A Problem for Authors – The Impostor Syndrome

Some friends were talking recently and a subject came up that is near and dear to most of us authors (and others) out there, but is rarely talked about – The Impostor Syndrome. This is the feeling deep inside that you aren’t at all good, that you have no right to be up there on [...]

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Read an eBook, Save a Tree; Buy an eBook Reader, Save a Forest: Review of eBookwise-1150 reading device (e-book Reader)

Do your bookshelves groan with jumbled masses of books, some of which have been in your possession since childhood? Are there stacks of books on all horizontal surfaces wherever you look—tables, floor, couch, chairs, tops of cabinets, laps of visitors? Do you keep buying books at a faster rate than you can read them? Are [...]

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