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...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 5, 2024 | Blog, Self-Publishing, The Business of Writing, The Craft of Writing
Sometimes, as creative people, we might find ourselves thinking about alternate paths we could have taken with our art, or with our entire careers. We might think of this as a reset, but in reality, it’s more of a change. You are not starting from scratch: you have a...
by kobowritinglife | Dec 31, 2023 | Blog, KWL Community, Newsletter Archive
Hello writers! With 2024* on the horizon, we’re feeling equal parts reflective and excited. A new year offers a good opportunity to look back—so in this issue of The KWL Quill, we’ve got a piece on the fun and function of modern retellings of classic stories....
by kobowritinglife | Dec 18, 2023 | Blog
The time has come! Today, after almost three weeks of voting, we are here to announce the four winners (one in each genre category) of the 2023 Indie Cover Contest! We received THOUSANDS of votes from readers, fellow authors, and cover enthusiasts alike. Thank you...
