Author Blog

Having a privacy policy on your website is good practice and protects you and your readers. Here’s a template to help you know what to include.

Creating an ebook can be daunting, especially if you don’t have design experience. But any author can learn to design their own ebook. Here are some tips to help you create a professional-grade ebook design.

We’ve discovered a few sites and apps for writers that we think you’ll love too! These helpful tools for writers can make writing easier and can help organize your writing life.

Lately, it seems that Amazon is losing its handle on bot farming and authors are taking notice. How are AI books affecting your ranking and sales? Here’s the scoop!

Thinking of writing a picture book? Here are 20 tips to help you on your journey!

Want to make your writing a little stronger? Check out these 17 words to avoid or to edit out of your writing during revision stages.

Have you ever tried using a voice recorder to “write” your book instead of typing it out? Check out this post for information to get you started!

When you’re editing your book, watch out for these common editing mistakes that authors make.

Trying to stay on top of social media can be overwhelming. Where should you start? Here are some simple social media strategies to help you grow your reader base.

Are you looking to promote your ebooks and gain more readers? Here are some ebook promotion strategies that will get your books noticed.

How important is an online presence for authors? Could you be losing sales by not being easy to contact? Find out just how important it is to make yourself available and stand out from the crowd.

Do you get sick of writing “he said/she said” or are you unsure how to punctuate dialogue tags? Here are 8 tips that will help you write and punctuate dialogue tags.

Tenant/tenet, then/than, bad/badly—do you really know the difference? Here are some words that writers commonly confuse and examples of how to use them.

How do authors juggle writing with a full-time career or other responsibility? If there were a guide book to get you through, it would probably look something like this.

What can you do to increase the odds of your author newsletter being opened and read by your subscribers? Write a killer email subject line. Here’s how!

Why discount or give away your ebook for free? It seems counter-intuitive or even crazy. But with so many ebooks immediately available to readers, you need to employ some skillful marketing tactics to get your book noticed.

Your author website is an important tool to connect with readers and to convert readers into fans. In this post, we bring to you examples of websites that are appealing and are effective at getting readers to stay on the page, sign up to learn more, and buy more books!

Many readers won’t buy your book without a few reviews. But how can you get more reviews for your ebook?

To write believable, realistic characters, you first need to know them. Here are some questions you can “ask” the main characters in your books to get to know them better!