I started making videos last July to promote my first novel, A Time and a Place, published October 1st 2017 by Five Rivers Publishing. I chose videos as a primary means of promotion because I believed they could make the biggest impact, and I could distribute them via multiple platforms for free.
Episode 90 of the Kobo Writing Life Podcast features an interview with Dennis Weichman, (AKA, Mr. W.), a retired math teacher who has brought his passion…
Kobo Writing Life will be at the 37th Annual RWA Conference July 26th through July 29th. KWL Director Mark Lefebvre will be at RWA meeting with…
This episode continues from where episode 82 left off with KWL’s recent live interviews with attendees from RT Booklovers Convention in Atlanta, Georgia in early…
KWL was recently in Atlanta, Georgia attending RT Booklovers Convention. Considered the Book Lover Event of the year, RT (Romantic Times) Booklovers brings more than…
“Right now writers have more opportunities than ever in the history of publishing!” This is a line that Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre often enjoys…
Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre recently joined Kevin Tumlinson, Director of Marketing at Draft2Digital for a London Book Fair Indie Author Fringe session entitled: Get…
By Scott Overton In spite of the advent of television, then music videos, all-music video channels, satellite radio, iPods, and the internet, old-fashioned free-off-the-airwaves radio broadcasting…
By Scott Overton The aspiring writer is always told, “write what you know.” Good advice because the research is already in your head, and because, along…
This podcast includes the full and unabridged audio of the Kobo in Conversation interview with Kathy Reichs conducted by Bob Ramsay and hosted by Kobo’s Senior Director of…
By Angela Misri, author of Jewel of the Thames Writing in a series is very different than writing a stand-alone novel. A stand-alone has its own…
By Angela Misri, author of Jewel of the Thames Writing mysteries is one of those specialized crafts that requires a constant escalation – in tension, in…
By Angela Misri, author of Jewel of the Thames Who are your favourite fictional villains? I’ll bet that they share some common traits and I’ll further…
Each year the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contests welcome a dozen talented new writers and illustrators into the field as published professionals. And countless…
By Angela Misri, author of Jewel of the Thames If you’re a curious person like me, you live for a good whodunit. You’re someone who actually…
What is self-publishing? What are its benefits? In the first episode of The Shelf Help Guide to Self-Publishing, author Ben Galley discusses why you should go indie,…
The following is a visual and audio presentation (with full text included) of a talk that Michael Tamblyn, Chief Content Officer at Kobo gave at FutureBook…
By Kim Richardson Book trailers are becoming more and more popular these days. Publishers are hiring big companies to produce high-end trailers for their upcoming books.…
by Tina Folsom When I first saw book trailers pop up on blogs and websites, I was frankly baffled. Why would anybody make a book trailer?…
David H. Burton, author of Broken: A Paranormal Romance, said in a recent interview with Kobo, that the best piece of advice he ever received as…