A Newbie's Guide to Publishing

I first met Scott Doornbosch in 2003. I was at the Magna Cum Murder conference in Muncie, Indiana, waiting for the elevator with my buddy Ro...

Barry Eisler has posted a number of smart comments on this topic here and on a few other blogs, too, and I asked him if he'd mind pull...

About 18 months ago, I was looking at the rapidly evolving ebook climate, and realized the need for a new type of service for authors. A fac...

Reviews are important. Customers often look at the average star rating, and the number of reviews a book has, before buying. But getting rev...

I just had a long conversation with Barry Eisler (no, we're not writing this one down) and one of the things we touched upon was what m...

Yes, you read correctly. According to Wired.co.uk , the billionaire author is forsaking her print publishers and releasing her novels on her...

I've been asked to speculate about the future in several emails, mostly from panicked authors whose Kindle sales have gone down in June....

Once upon a time, years ago, there was a crazy author who spent a lot of time, money, and energy visiting forty different states in the US. ...

When I was offered a contract for my first novel back in 2002, one of the first things I did was join the Mystery Writers of America. As a l...

Raymond Benson has been a buddy of mine for years. He wrote nine James Bond novels and a slew of others, including tie-ins for the the vide...