The importance of reading reader reviews

Why Authors Should Listen to Readers: About the importance of reading reader reviews

It’s been a little less than two months since my debut novel Fake Fish appeared. I have been lucky enough to not only have the book discussed in journals such as Low Hanging Fruit Literary Magazine, Observant, and Women Writers and Women Books, but the reviews have been very positive as well. The novel was […]

Within Our Grasp book cover

Author Spotlight: Tom Etzel

Tom Etzel is the founder and executive director of The Global Peace Building Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting grassroots peacebuilding efforts worldwide. In September, he self-published his debut novel Within Our Grasp: Changing Ourselves and the World. After experiencing personal losses in the aftermath of 9/11, Etzel felt compelled to study and pursue peacebuilding […]

Writing and Reading for Pleasure: January | Douglas Burcham

Douglas continues his writing and reading for pleasure series with some thoughts for January on writing progress and structure, 2015 reading and publishing.   I set out in June 2015 to complete a full self-edit and restructuring of my 300k word Gemini storybook by the end of 2015. Alas, I have failed because I have […]