Literary Round Up, Sept 21st
News from around the book world this week.
DIY: Designing Your Own Book Cover
By Peter Staadecker Peter Staadecker is a KWL author and illustrator whose book The Twelve Man Bilbo Choir has been shortlisted for the 2018 Kobo Emerging Writer…
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…
Ebook Quality Assurance: The last 20% is the most important
by Joshua Tallent You’ve done it! You finally finished the last sentence of your book. Maybe it was the novel you wrote for NANOWRIMO (my 12-year-old…
The Writer’s Conference: a drink from the fire hose
by Chris Mandeville I just returned home after spending a jam-packed three days at a writer’s conference. This was the 25th or so such event I’ve…
The Most Common Editing and Proofreading Mistakes That Writers Usually Make
By Gloria Kopp In today’s marketplace, getting your work out there is often considered more crucial than checking it for errors first. As good as it…
From $50 a day to $3,000 a day in 2 months: My top tips for self-publishing success
By Adam Croft December 2015 seems like a lifetime ago to me now. At the beginning of that month I was earning somewhere in the…
Kobo Writing Life at BookExpo America 2016
BookExpo America (BEA) is the leading book and author event for the North American publishing industry. It’s the best place to discover new titles and authors,…
How to create a great box set
By Tara Cremin Box sets are hugely popular on Kobo at the moment. Our best selling titles on Kobo Writing Life are nearly always ones that…
Are family reunions the best parties in town?
The London Book Fair has always been the fancy parlour of the publishing establishment. You can sense it when wandering around the stands, where the members…
The One Page Book Planner: A Simple Tool To Help You Write a Better Book
By Jennie Nash The number one thing a writer can do to give their book a fighting chance in the marketplace is something so obvious…
My Writing Life – Tony Bertauski
When did you first discover a love of writing? I always wanted to write creatively. I just wasn’t good at it. I didn’t have a writer’s…
KWL Author Services Introduces Audiobooks
By Hufsa Tahir A few months ago, we introduced a new tab to your KWL Dashboard: Author Services. This panel contains an array of services we…
The Power of Editing: How the Right Editor Helped One Author Find Her Voice, and Publish Her Book
By Natasa Lekic, NY Book Editors Advice columnist K.T. Edwards started working on her first book in 2011. She wanted to write about her own experiences…
Getting The Most Out Of Kobo
By Donna Fasano I see regular sales of my independently published books in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and about a dozen other countries each month. But thanks to Kobo Writing Life…
My Writing Life – L.L. Bartlett
When did you first discover a love of writing? I started out by writing Star Trek fan fiction, but I got my love of reading from…
My Writing Life – Ana E Ross
When did you first discover a love of writing? Is there a particular book that made you want to become a writer? I would have to…
The Hat-trick: Tools for Revision
by Chris Mandeville Knife, scissors, chisel, scalpel, jackhammer—I bet you were expecting a plethora of these types of implements in a post about “tools for revision.”…
How My Book Was Turned Into A Movie
By Howard Kaplan When I was on my junior year abroad in Jerusalem in 1971, rather than study for finals, a friend suggested we travel to…
How Pinterest Helps Me Research That Next Book AND Build My Author Brand
Bestselling historical romance author Lucinda Brant has become an all-star Pinterest user. Over the last four years, she has gained almost 15,000 followers by pinning everything…
My Writing Life – Sara Rosett
When did you first discover a love of writing? Is there a particular book that made you want to become a writer? I’ve always loved to…
How My $19.99 Boxed Set Became a #1 Kobo Bestseller
Lately, it feels like the loudest voices in the indie community are all about exclusivity and low eBook prices. Well, here’s a story that disproves everything…
FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2015 INTERNATIONAL SELF-PUBLISHING AND AUTHOR PROGRAM
Kobo Writing Life is delighted to take part in Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 and to support the Fair’s International Self-Publishing and Author program on this occasion.…
Promote your KWL Titles With PW Select
You may have noticed that Kobo Writing Life is now offering Author Services. One of the services that we’re excited to be involved in is with PW…
My Writing Life – Chris Taylor
When did you discover a love of writing? I’ve always loved to write stories, even from a small child. I would write ten and twelve pages…
Writing your novel this summer? Here are 6 no-fail tips for self-publishers
By BlueInk Review As summer kicks into full gear, many are taking the time to write that novel or memoir they’ve been planning to get to…
My Writing Life – Marti Talbott
What made you want to become a writer? Like a lot of writers, I am an avid daydreamer with a ton of stories constantly swirling around…
My Writing Life – Tanya Anne Crosby
When did you first discover a love of writing? Somehow, I think I’ve always known I would be a writer. I remember being 12 and getting…
My Writing Life – Edie Claire
When did you first discover a love of writing? I started my first novel in the 5th grade. It was a romance about a high school…
How Kobo Increased My Sales Off KPD Select
by Katie Cross When I decided to go off KDP Select my sales pretty much plummeted and took my ego with it. Just kidding. No I’m not.…
My Writing Life: Victoria Connelly
When did you first discover a love of writing? Is there a particular book that made you want to become a writer? I started writing my…
I Have a Big Anniversary Coming Up.
By Kate Hilton On May 7th, it will be exactly two years since I self-published The Hole in the Middle. I remember it vividly. I was…
How To Get Difficult Books Into The Media
In an increasingly commercial and competitive media-sphere, getting media coverage for ‘difficult books’—books not written by established authors and not published by well-known publishers—might strike…
My Writing Life: Kristen James
Kristen James has written over twenty books and ranked in the top 100 Bestsellers in Kindle US, UK and Canada, #1 in ten different categories, #1…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 030 – Dean Wesley Smith
Mark Lefebvre, Kobo Writing Life Director, in conversation with Dean Wesley Smith, a USA Today Bestselling author of books in multiple genres including Science-Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers and…
My Writing Life: David Ebsworth
When did you first discover a love of writing? Is there a particular book that made you want to become a writer? I’ve dabbled with writing…
My Writing Life: Pauline Baird Jones
When did you first discover a love of writing? Is there a particular book that made you want to become a writer? I fell in love…
Get published in both ebook and paperback with The Open Day Competition
SilverWood Books and Kobo Writing Life are delighted to extend their Open Day Competition prize to include a paperback edition, printed by Berforts Information Press. The…