Can novels compete with modern entertainment sources such as 1000-channel television and the internet, or are they, to quote writer Will Self, “doomed to become a marginal cultural form, along with easel painting and the classical symphony”? Quillette magazine offers an upbeat (for novelists) assessment.
If you’re selling your book on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), one of the key decisions you must make is whether to activate Digital Rights Management. This article explores what’s at stake.
Writers can spend years fine-tuning the text of their novel and then be baffled when it comes to organizing the collection of copyright, dedications, table of contents and more that exists at the start of the book. The Book Designer has a single, clarifying blog post on this topic.
This writing advice site tackles a number of esoteric writing concerns such as maintaining enthusiasm for your work, ethical plagiarism, and the importance of a BOB file.
