Author Services
Author Articles
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...
What Are the Best Ways to Publish Your Ebooks?
Publishing your ebook has never been this easy but choosing which platform to use has never been this hard. This is a seemingly contradictory statement but quite true. With the help of a computer and by just following the easy step-by-step instructions, you can now...
Amazon Createspace Platform: Is It Any Good?
The Amazon Createspace platform was created to cater for independent writers who wish to have their books published without the financial expenditures and the difficulties that come along with the actual publishing of their books. For writers, finishing a book is the easy part. From then...
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing: Friend or Foe?
One of the largest companies in the world today is Amazon. Millions of people use Amazon to look for products, sell merchandise, offer services, and even publish books and novels. With Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, many writers, newbies and pros alike, now have a platform...
What Every Author Needs to Know When Publishing a Book
Publishing a book can be an exciting and nerve racking event in an author’s life. Exciting, because knowing that your book will be published and could be read by many people is a dream come true. On the other hand, it is nerve racking because...
What are the Top 5 Best Print-on-Demand Companies?
In publishing a book, it is vital that you know which publishing house is best. In today’s generation, where almost everything is digital, many companies have started to offer print-on-demand publishing services. If you are a newbie author and you don’t know anything about the...
Is Print-On-Demand Publishing a Good Way for Authors to Earn Money?
If your passion is writing, then writing down the things that go through your mind is perhaps your greatest joy. However, publishing your written work, whether it’s a short novel or a book, is a totally different thing. It takes a lot of effort, time,...
Useful Websites and Resources in Your Search for a Publishing Deal
Before you publish your books, there are important factors that you need to consider, such as the services of publishing companies, your marketing strategies, your agent-hunting techniques, and some other related things. That’s why you need to know where to look for information. You also...
What Every Author Needs to Know About Vanity Publishing
Vanity publishing is when you pay a publishing company to print your finished book. When you compare vanity publishing to traditional publishing, you will see a huge difference, mostly in terms of payment. Major publishers derive their profit from the sales a published book has...
What Every Author Needs To Know About Book Publishing
To put it simply, book publishing is the process of having written works printed, published, then sold. It sounds easy when you put it that way, but the actual book publishing process is quite complex and is composed of numerous developmental stages. If you are...
Little Known Pitfalls of the Traditional Publishing Industry
Traditional publishing was the most dominant form of book publishing model before the internet. In order for books to be published in the past, authors must submit a completed manuscript along with a query letter or proposal straight to the publishing house or with the...