So you’ve finished the final draft of your book. You have the perfect cover design. You’re mere weeks away from going to print. Now you just need to work on that final touch: the blurb. Easy, right? For many writers, the prospect of whittling that 80,000-word manuscript, toiled over for the best part of a […]

How to Write Your Awesome Author Bio A great author bio is often overlooked. We see countless Amazon sales pages that lack a well considered and detailed author biography. You may wonder why an author biography is important? Well there are a number of reasons as detailed below. Non-Fiction If you are a non-fiction writer […]

We receive a huge number emails which say “I’ve just published by book. What should I do now?”. If you’re asking this question then you are already on the back foot. You can still turn things around but you need to move quickly. We aren’t saying this to close a sale or panic you into […]

Securing a Publisher: How To Get Your Book Published If you were to run a search through our inbox this would be the most popular question we receive. Most authors want to secure a publishing deal. What follows is the advice we give to new authors looking to pursue a traditional publishing deal. Additionally we have […]

  “Difference between commercial and literary fiction?” A great question posed by @rosemarydun on Twitter. It is something many authors will need to think about when it comes time to categorise their writing. We thought we would investigate further! At first we thought this would be a nice and simple question to tackle: do some research and present […]