Your nonfiction book cover serves as the first impression readers have of your product. A great cover does more than grab attention – it tells a story about your authority to write on the topic and how well you understand your niche. As more people turn to self-publishing, staying relevant becomes even more crucial. You […]
Self-publishing gives you freedom, but it also gives you… everything else. You’re the writer, the editor, the marketing strategist, the social media intern, the customer service rep, and sometimes the book cover and interior layout designer. You’re also the one refreshing your royalty dashboard at 3am, wondering if any of this is working. At first, […]
Having been in the publishing space for nearly forty years, I’m still amazed at the endless stream of scams aimed at self-published authors. Hardly a week goes by without some new variation—whether by email or phone. The names and approaches may change, but the tactics share common threads that should immediately raise red flags. At […]
As the British Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo first embarked on writing novels instead of poems, she soon realised that, unlike with poetry, she needed to think about story structure to give her books a sense of direction (Evaristo, 2021). Indeed, for a novel to work well and to keep readers’ attention, narrative structure is […]
