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Book Review & Contest Insights from Real Reviews and Submissions

What separates great books from the rest? Below are articles with insights from real reviews and contest submissions—what works, what doesn’t, and how to improve your book. You’ll also find a wide range of articles covering writing, publishing, marketing, and more. Each article has a Comments section so you can read advice from other authors and leave your own.

Why Some Books Win Awards (And Most Don’t) — Insights From Real Contest Submissions New!

What separates award-winning books from the rest? After evaluating contest submissions across a wide range of genres, certain patterns become clear. Some books consistently rise to the top. Others, even with strong ideas and clear effort behind them, fall short. The difference is rarely dramatic—it...

What We’ve Learned From Reviewing Hundreds of Thousands of Books (And Why Most Don’t Stand Out) New!

After reviewing and evaluating books across thousands of submissions over the past two decades, certain patterns become impossible to ignore. Some books immediately stand out to reviewers. Others—even well-intentioned ones—fade into the middle or fall short. The difference is rarely luck. It comes down to...

Publishers and the Economy: Do They Really Care?

Printed materials have long been a source of income for anyone who wants to disseminate information and entertain the masses. Writers create articles for newspapers that contain information on a variety of topics; authors crank out manuscript after manuscript to satisfy the needs of their...

The World’s Favourite Authors

Authors in today’s world are treated like rock stars. They make TV appearances, do radio shows, and, if your book is really popular, you can even have a movie made out of one or two of them. You’ll literally be able to make a living...

Boost your Book Sales – The Tie-In

Reading has returned. There are more people that want to read, and the variety of books available is starting to feel a bit too small. Both the movie and the television industries are taking advantage of best-sellers, cranking out series after series and movie after...

Do Successful Self-Published Authors Need Traditional Publishers?

Self-publishers still need traditional publishers to some extent. This is because traditional publishers can easily get books into bookstores. However, it does not mean that self-published books cannot be marketed. Indie authors can sell their books in digital form, therefore eliminating the middleman that is...

The Edge of Bleakness in Nordic Noir

The rise of Nordic noir fiction is undeniable; more and more people are hooked on watching shows in the genre of Nordic noir, which is also known as Scandinavian crime fiction. Great writers from the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland find...

What’s Trending in Children’s Literature

With a wide array of options presented by the advancement of technology, the current trends in children’s literature are also as diverse. These trends, however, are seen to affect the way real and tangible books are perceived. The modern ways of procuring and reading books...

Indie Publishing on The High

Publishing is not something to be taken lightly. It’s not the biggest sector in the market, but if you can hit the right spot, it’ll certainly help you rake in big money. Although the Big Five, namely the Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random...

On Publishers and Book Stores

Books have been taking the world by storm in recent years. More and more people are interested in reading, and even though e-books are a more viable option, people still look forward to holding a book in their hands and flipping the pages eagerly as...

To Print or Not To Print?

Books used to bring people so much joy, especially watching kids carrying their school bags filled to the brim with books. Printed books were also the go-to material if you wanted to stay ahead of the class. You were also considered “cool” or “smart” if you...

Indie Madness

Independent authors are on the rise. They’re both out-writing and outselling their big-name counterparts. Publishing houses are slowly but surely moving away from their big-name authors and turning more and more to independent authors to get more sales. The question is how are these seemingly...