Why Hiring a Book Cover Designer on One of Those Cheap Freelance Sites Can Be VERY Expensive!
What your designer did was a complete waste of money.
What Does it Mean When Your Quiet Neighbor Gives You THIS as a Gift?!?!
I admit I’ve been avoiding Andrea since receiving this gift. I’m not sure whether I should make it into a necklace, or turn it into the cops…
4 Rules for Selling THOUSANDS of Books! – by Stephen Moore
After four successful books, and thousands of copies sold, I’ve embraced a few rules on how best to publicize and sell my work. Here they are…
NICE TRY, FELLA! The FUNNIEST Fake Book Proposal We’ve Ever Seen!
Sometimes competitors and others test BookLocker.com to see if we really do screen manuscripts that we’re considering for publication. Yes, we absolutely do! We rejected the poetry book written by the dog of an author. That was memorable. There was the…
Can I Turn Interviews I Wrote For A Publication Into A Book?
Can I turn interviews into my own book, or do those pieces belong to the magazine?
What Happens When You Drink and Drive…a Boat
We were pretty shocked this morning when woke up to find this!!!
From 4-Year-Old Story Teller (with a Mesmerized 4-Legged Fan) to Published Author! by Thomas Mathias
I think I was an author beginning about age four but I never put anything down on paper until after retirement. I grew up in the country, which limited my number of friends and social activities. In fact, I only had one friend, Mickey. We were about the same age and our main difference was […]
When a Mysterious Voice in the Night Told Me to Write a Book… – by Maria Arrington
I had retired to bed on the first evening of the weekend class, and was sharply awakened midway through the night by a voice. I was surprised because I am a heavy sleeper and because I was in the bedroom alone. The voice said…
How I Outwitted Government Censors to Publish My Book – by Leonard A. Slutsky
From memoir to “biographical fiction,” how one author shaved a 1,000-page tomb down to an entertaining 318-page story…that wouldn’t attract the attention of government censors.
An Observant Airport Employee and His Author Friend Help Expose Child Sex Trafficking in a Unique Way – by Kitania Kavey
I live in the Netherlands where there is only one main airport. It is the third busiest in all of Europe. A friend of mine works as a passenger assistant there, and knows that I write screenplays. He approached me one day, around 2014, to tell me his story. He had become aware that some […]