Published on November 4, 2021
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There are only 51 days until Christmas. That’s 36 business days. Most full-service print on demand/publishing services firms take around 4-6 months to get a book to market. Some offer rush services but NONE of them offers a 2-week publishing program…except BookLocker…
Published on October 21, 2021
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Working from home can be unproductive if you don’t take the time to optimize.
Published on October 21, 2021
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My email was (horrors!) insulting and the dastardly diva sure showed me! She wrote back, saying she was…
Published on October 15, 2021
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Unlike other genres, the setting in Gothic fiction is so important that it is often considered a character in itself.
Published on October 15, 2021
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If Netflix was actually interested in your book, they would not send you such a generic letter.
Published on October 8, 2021
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This is one of the trickier situations a freelance writer can deal with, and it’s a fairly common situation at that…
Published on October 8, 2021
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It’s been four years since we’ve checked up on Balboa Press. We decided to revisit them after we yet received another complaint about Balboa Press from an author just this week. Things are definitely NOT looking any better!
Published on October 7, 2021
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When I began checking the “errors” in Grammarly’s system, I found they all had to do with personal pronoun use — he, she, him, her, himself, herself, and even the words…
Published on October 1, 2021
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Writers may feel the pull toward the dark side, but writing horror is far from easy.
Published on October 1, 2021
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If you let any other person or company host your website, they have the power to “cancel” you if they don’t like something in your book, something you wrote online, or even some of your social media posts. You may think you’re safe from this garbage right now but you never know which way the politically correct tide is going to move in the future…