What is Internal Conflict? Conflict is a necessary ingredient to any good story. Without a struggle between two opposing forces, your main character won’t change and will easily reach their goal. Doesn’t sound like too exciting of a story, does it...

What is a Suspense Novel? The suspense genre is closely related to a mystery or thriller , which can make it difficult to classify. Often, the three genres are lumped together by publishers and classified as Mystery/Suspense or Suspense/Thriller, but...

The most effective book marketing plans include promotional efforts through many different channels including online media, traditional media, paid advertising, in-person events, social media, and more. In the world of marketing, there are "inbound"...

Choosing a publishing direction can be difficult. With such a large book market, the available options tend to be confusing and overwhelming. Before submitting work and choosing to pursue a traditional publisher, it’s important that an author researches...

Alexis Krasilovsky is the author of Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling (Routledge: NY/London) and the #MeToo novel Sex and the Cyborg Goddess (under the name Alexis Rafael), winner of the Irwin Award for “Best #MeToo Novel of the...

What you put in your author newsletter has a big impact on whether or not it will engage readers, and creating and maintaining a newsletter that gets results can be challenging. To reach your audience and keep them interested, you need to understand...