One savvy author skill is the ability to deliver your book’s elevator pitch. Every author needs to be able to showcase their book in about 30 to 60 seconds, which is the traditional length of an elevator ride. The elevator pitch is part hook and part...

As you're putting the finishing touches on your manuscript, focus your attention on the overall presentation of your book. Front matter—the content of your manuscript preceding the main body text—is usually the first place a potential reader will look...

While much smaller than the US and European book markets, the Singaporean book market still mirrors the genre trends in these countries. Books that are popular in the US and Europe tend to be popular in Singapore, as Penguin Books Singapore's Managing...

Your book is not complete when you write the final word. Throughout the process, authors need someone to go through three types of editing on their book to ensure the end product is marketable. Book marketing expert and author Desiree Duffy explains...

Your Writing is Terrific, Now Become Prolific! Best-selling author Derek Taylor Kent is the author of 19 published and soon-to-be published books, including seven novels, dozens of screenplays, plays, and musicals, and more. But would you believe he...

Book marketing can be expensive or not, depending on your goals and your budget. There are lots of ways to keep the costs down by using free or low cost marketing options and limiting (or targeting) where you spend more money. Free Stuff Book reviews...

Award-winning, bestselling author Cara C. Putman has over 40 published titles in several different genres including legal thriller, romantic suspense, historical fiction, Amish fiction, and Christian romance. Before she switches gears between genres...

Whether you work full-time or have ten kids, your life is probably pretty busy. It can be hard to fit writing into that jam-packed life if writing hasn't already been a natural part of you for years and years. Here you'll find a few tips for those who...