Indy Reads Books' former Executive Director M. Travis DiNicola had a dream to publish an anthology. Indy Writes Books became a reality after the organization received grant money to fund the publication. The book's concept, as Director of Indy Reads...

Indy Reads Books' former Executive Director M. Travis DiNicola had a dream to publish an anthology. Indy Writes Books became a reality after the organization received grant money to fund the publication. The book's concept, as Director of Indy Reads...

Bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison talk about co-writing The Devil's Triangle , the new book in their Brit in the FBI series. How do they work together? Do they always get along? And is writer's block really a thing? For more about...

Author Will Dean brings readers inside his writing cabin in Sweden as he dissects the first chapter of his new thriller, The Last Thing to Burn . Watch as he "marks up" the pages of his book and talks about how its intense story differs from other claustrophobic...

Literary publicist Stephanie Barko shares the three things an author needs to do to be viable online. These are a website, a blog, and a social suite. Which social profiles you choose are important and the choice is not the same for every author. The...

When it comes to marketing your book, you will often hear that you cannot neglect social media. While this is true, media expert Thomas Umstattd warns against using social media as an excuse or a replacement for working on your writing. Instead, Thomas...

How often have you heard a writer say--or even said yourself--"I just want to write books--I don't want to have to sell them, too!" Marketing and bookselling are not always natural tasks for authors, but in today's publishing landscape even traditionally...

Literary publicist Stephanie Barko shares the three things an author needs to do to be viable online. These are a website, a blog, and a social suite. Which social profiles you choose are important and the choice is not the same for every author. The...

Author Cindy Jones shares marketing strategies for authors, six ways she markets her book and her personal blogging habits. Pay particular attention to the way she speaks about the tasks that she's doing: All of them are driven from her own native...

Bethany Hegedus, author and owner of The Writing Barn (a writer’s retreat outside of Austin, Texas), shares her thoughts on how and why characters change in a novel. Over the course of the novel, determine where the character is starting from, what their...