Published on October 17, 2019
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Published on October 17, 2019
Print on demand, self-publishing

What your designer did was a complete waste of money.
Published on October 17, 2019

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…
Published on October 12, 2019
book marketing

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…
Published on October 10, 2019
amazon, createspace complaints, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, writing career advice

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…
Published on October 10, 2019
author, copyrights, legal, write that book, writing career advice, writing tips

Can I turn interviews into my own book, or do those pieces belong to the magazine?
Published on October 9, 2019

We were pretty shocked this morning when woke up to find this!!!
Published on October 8, 2019
backstories

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 […]
Published on October 5, 2019

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…
Published on October 5, 2019
backstories

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.