by kobowritinglife | Feb 12, 2024 | Blog, Book Lovers, KWL Community, Read Like a Writer
February is Black History Month, and the team at Kobo Writing Life put together a list of amazing indie authors and their standalone books and series starters that feature narratives encompassing and centring a wide range of Black experiences across genres – from...
by kobowritinglife | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog, Events, KWL Community
Steamy Romance Author Roundtable featuring Cynthia Eden, K.A. Linde and Carly Phillips The Kobo Writing Life team invites you to join us on February 29th from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST for a exciting live Q&A event with planning expert and best-selling self-published...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter Archive
Hello writers! Happy January! Whether you’re spending it in a deep-freeze or on a beach, we hope your 2024 is off to a sublime start. We’ve stacked this issue of The KWL Quill with new-year, new-start energy: We’ve got advice on how to reset your author brand,...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 26, 2024 | Blog, KWL Community, The Business of Writing, Tips
Welcome to 2024! We’re here at the start of another year in publishing – both exciting and daunting, to be sure, but we’re here to help. We’re going to focus on some evergreen advice for authors as well as offer our opinion on what to expect in writing, publishing,...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 19, 2024 | Blog
Wait, what? A fiction author, writing non-fiction? Gasp – who ever heard of such a thing! A lot of people, actually! Many fiction authors branch out after writing fiction for a while, writing non-fiction titles that go on to become best-sellers. There are too many to...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog, KWL Community, My Writing Life, The Craft of Writing, Tips
Everyone loves a novel they can sit and read through in an afternoon – but authors can take many months, even years, to finish even the shortest novel (which is often around 20,000 words, by the way). So, knowing that you’re going to take at least a month, dear...