Engage Your Readers

by D.L. Wilson Authors must engage readers. To do that successfully requires learning who our readers are. Established authors need to find ways of communicating with their readers. The new rapidly advancing Internet social networking opportunities provide many new vehicles to get input from readers. An...

Break Free Tip From Terry Taylor Bird

Healthy relationships often depend upon the kinds of agreements we make with other people. This BREAK FREE TIP shows how you can make agreements that enhance your life and how to stay free from agreements that bring you stress, pain, and guilt. ARE YOU A PRISONER OF YOUR COMMITMENTS? Healthy...

Writers’ Block: The Symptoms and the Cure

By Karen Hodges Miller The other day I had a writing deadline. I wrote a lead. Deleted it. Wrote another. Deleted it. Played some solitaire. Checked my email. Wrote a third lead. Deleted it. Got a snack. Wrote a fourth lead. I was suffering from that dread disease, Writer’s Block. If you haven’t...

Chain of Souls Amazon eBook Giveaway June 7th

We are pleased to announce to our Salem VI fans and followers that Book II: Chain of Souls will be available for a free download today, Friday June 7th. Chain of Souls is the second book in the Salem Witch Trilogy, co-authored by Jack Heath, direct descendent of the accused and accusers of the infamous...

12 Month Book Marketing Plan

by Sherrie Wilkolaski Original version of this article published in Ms. Wilkolaski’s monthly column “Author’s Guide to Publishing” in IFWTWA’s “Press Pass”. The holidays are upon us and thoughts of sugarplums and holiday cocktails are much more fun to dream about than worrying about what...

Are Author Tours Worth It?

by Nicole Riley I am often asked if author tours are successful. We are very honest with the folks we have worked with on what a book signing might look like, yet there are still a number of authors who think there is going to be a line wrapping around the building to purchase their books at every event no...