Blog Posts
Drive Traffic to Your Author Site (4 Tricks You can Use)
Being a self-published author means embracing the Do It Yourself (DIY) mindset when it comes to producing and selling your book. It’s up to you to get your book’s cover designed, build a following on social media, and create an author site that attracts new readers....
Why Publishers And Literary Agents Will Reject Your Manuscript
Why would publishers reject your manuscript? So, you’ve chosen to pursue traditional publication. Maybe you’ve already had success with self-publishing and are looking to tackle the mainstream, or maybe your brand of literary fiction isn’t especially suited to the...
Ten Simple Steps to Make Editing a Novel Easier and More Fun
Writing the first draft of a novel or any book is, you might say, the easy part. But it’s at the novel editing stage that we craft our work into something special. We aim to transform our material into work that will compel a reader. If you’ve recently finished a...
Tips to Better Author Productivity
Being a published author in Nigeria can be a daunting task. We are trained to never put all our eggs in one big uncertain basket, so we take a day job and write in our free time. But that can hinder author productivity so here are some insights to help you prevent...
How to Author a Page Turner
Some books keep you awake till the early hours, while others gather dust by your bedside. If you’ve read a book that captivated you, so much so you couldn’t summon the heart to put it down, and you often find yourself reading it well into the night, or turning to it...
Practical Tips You Need to Complete Your Book
Authors should be celebrated and applauded at any given opportunity. Behind the structured, coloured and inspiring book is a person who fought off the forces of depression, confusion, discouragement and uncertainty to make the pen write. The writer’s pen is not...
Online Book Tours and Why You Should Do Them
When you imagine a book tour, you might picture authors trekking from city to city, entertaining crowds of avid readers with special readings or signing copies of their latest book until their fingers bleed and their shoulders require icepacks. Isn’t that the dream?...
5 Tips for Choosing Images for Your Book Cover
Choosing a photograph or illustration for your book's cover can obviously be a daunting task. No matter how imaginative writers can be, visual imagination is not always included. For many authors, the fact that an entire novel requires only one picture to illustrate...
How to Make Yourself Start – and Finish – Your Book
Writing a book, whether fiction or nonfiction, is quite exciting and fun, but there is no doubt that it can be challenging as well. In the process of writing, you gather facts, recollect history or create an alternate reality of your own. The end result is a complete...
8 Proofreading Tips and Techniques
Whether you are writing a magazine article, a college essay or an email to a client, getting your text free of mistakes is essential. The spelling checker helps, but it is far from foolproof. That is where proofreading comes in. Below you will find eight tips and...
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