Jill Shalvis, author of Almost Just Friends: “The call that changed my life”
This content originally appeared on Walmart.com Everyone has a “How I Started My Career” story. Which is different from their “My First Job” story. Cuz my…
Q&A with J. Robert Kennedy
J. Robert Kennedy is a bestselling author with over fifty titles under his belt and over one million copies sold. He was kind enough to take…
#164 – Learning the Habits of your Readers with Emma Chase
Emma Chase, NYT bestselling author, discusses the importance of learning the habits of your readers and setting reader expectations before the release of a new book. She discusses how she built up her newsletter audience and gives us hints about what to expect next from her Royally series.
Planning: How to Keep Your Sanity as an Indie Author
If you’re one of those writers who buys a planner six months early, I’m betting you’re psyched to see the title of this article! If not, I hope to lure your over to the dark side with some guidelines to help keep you on track as an author and savvy entrepreneur.
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 101 – Charlotte Leonetti
Joni Di Placido interviews Charlotte Leonetti, a high school senior who wrote and self-published her YA novel Heartshire High. Her novel is a modern-day retelling…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 099 – BookBub
The episode you can’t miss: how to sell more books with BookBub.
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 098 – Rachel Amphlett
In Episode 98, Mark Lefebvre interviews bestselling Australian thriller author Rachel Amphlett, who came to Kobo HQ during her international author tour. Rachel, her husband Nick, and Mark sat down to talk about how she finds inspiration, never giving up, sticking to a schedule, and more
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 097 – James Alan Gardner & Spider Robinson
Mark Lefebvre interviews James Alan Gardner and Spider Robinson, co-editors of the Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela anthology. The stories in this anthology in their own way tell the tale of futuristic travelers who journey into the dark outer (or inner) reaches of space, searching for their own connections to the past, present and future relics of their time.
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 096 – Pep Talks from NaNoWriMo’s Grant Faulkner
It’s day 8 of National Novel Writing Month, which is perfect timing to listen to some excellent inspiration from Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo. He…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 094 – Heather Tucker
It’s never too late to start writing.
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 093 – Interviews from When Words Collide
Episode 93 includes a series of short interviews that KWL Director, Mark Lefebvre conducted at the 2017 When Words Collide conference in Calgary, Alberta. Mark speaks…
Welcome, Writer: Your Permission Slip Is Here
This piece is excerpted from Stop Worrying; Start Writing: How To Overcome Fear, Self-Doubt and Procrastination by Sarah Painter You Can Do This I am going…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 84 – RT Booklovers Conference Part 3
Episode 84 contains the third and final installment of interviews that took place at RT (Romantic Times) Booklovers Convention in Atlanta this year. This time…
Writing All Over The Map: Leah Cutter’s Island Sampler
By Leah Cutter Welcome to the Island Sampler! Why do I call this the Island Sampler? Like many writers, I write all over the map.…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 78 – Katie Cross, From Full Time Author to Full Time Mom
Mark Lefebvre, Director of Kobo Writing Life, interviews Young Adult Fantasy and Chicklit author, Katie Cross as she shares strategies about how she was able to…
Quoth The Loft: Evermore
By Todd Fahnestock The Value of Collecting Quotes I collect quotes. The habit started back in college when I was sleeping on a rough-cut wooden loft…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 069 – Podcasting for Authors
In a slight twist to the normal format of this podcast, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, who is interested in getting involved in podcasting, interviews Mark Lefebvre, Joanna…
Kismet And Creation: Some Books Are Meant To Be
Kobo Writing Life is a platform used by indie authors and independent publishers. These publishers, who typically comprise of smaller teams, are nimble and quick, experiment,…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 059 – Tom Vanderbilt
Nathan Maharaj, Kobo’s Director of Merchandising, interviews Tom Vanderbilt, the best-selling author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, about his latest book You…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 051 – David Farland
Known as the “Wizard of Storytelling,” David Farland (who also writes under the name David Wolverton) is the author and editor of more than fifty books,…
Author Name Field
When entering author/contributor names into Kobo Writing Life, you are no longer limited to entering three authors. Now, you can enter up to 50 authors/contributors. By…
Best Read Books of 2015
Authors always enjoy when the unit sales of the books soar and when they hit the various prestigious best-seller lists that allow themselves to adopt the…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 041 – Barbara Freethy
We’re really excited to share this episode with you: an interview with #1 NYT bestselling author Barbara Freethy! Barbara shares great stories about her publishing journey,…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 039 – Bella Andre
Episode 39 features the one and only… Bella Andre! Bella is a self-publishing superstar, one of the original KWL beta testers when we started off in…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 037 – Victoria Strauss
This week’s podcast is essential listening for all authors: Victoria Strauss from Writer Beware is joining us to share her most important advice for how writers…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 027 – Louise Penny
In the fall of 2014, Louise Penny visited Kobo’s home office in Toronto and was interviewed by editor and book enthusiast Jennifer Knoch for a…
Most Read Titles
Take a look at the following book covers and ask the question: What do these ten books have in common? …
Why Exclusivity is Bad (Unless You’re Amazon)
We recently read, with significant interest, a series of articles that author Nick Stephenson began posting regarding experiments in pulling titles out of KDP Select (a…
The Special Thrill of Captivating Readers
By Casey Kelleher I’ve just had the most amazing five days in New York. Christmas shopping with my kids in all the big stores (I had…
2014 Author Walk of Fame
For the second time, Kobo Writing Life awarded a star on Frankfurt Book Fair’s Walk of Fame to two bestselling authors: Joanna Penn and Matthias Matting,…
Louise Penny on Silencing the Writer’s Inner Critic
By Jennifer Shenouda For some, what begins as a case of writer’s block can quickly evolve into full-on writer’s paralysis, the inability to move forward with…
Writing From Life: Jessica Scott On Being a Writer and a Soldier
Jessica Scott is a bestselling author, career army officer, mother of two daughters, and wife to a career NCO. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as…