Authors use props—objects, food, music, accessories, hobbies, animals, and many other things—to support their characters and move them through different scenes, and they use props to provide subtle cues to the reader as to how to feel about the…
With the launch of my fourth novel, “The House Always Wins,” in October, 2017, I’ve been in full promo mode for the last four months. Luckily, I’m a marketing guy in real life, which may give me a leg up but doesn’t make the task any…
If you request a review from a busy book blogger, you are likely to be put in a months-long que. Popular bloggers can’t keep up with the requests they get, and some of the biggest bloggers get paid by large publishers to review books. What chance…
After years of contemplating, I dared to enter the prestigious, but challenging world of the “struggling authors’ society”. I always wanted to write children’s books; I finally figured out what I wanted to write about. Now, that my…
Long before my first book was published, I read-up on the best practices for autographing books. My wife thought I was crazy for spending so much time on this topic considering I didn’t have a book that needed signing, but the information learned…
