Authors

If you are a writer, you must read Hemingway. If you are a person who reads great literature, the same goes. However, one cannot simply plunge into Hemingway without a gameplan. This master of...

Great book promotion can not go without book reviews. How do you get reviews and how can they help your book promotion? Book reviews is a powerful book promotion tool.

For a novice author, writing a book on his own without support of friends authors by no means is an impossible act: sometimes authors start writing a book with so much to say that they sit down at...

One who undertakes a courageous act of writing a book without having much of professional experience as a writer, most likely will run into periods of doubt and fear that his or her writing...

Amazon is a place where an Author can grow his business and connect with reader. It offers many wonderful features that can help an author to promote his books and to establish great relationship...

How to write a great fantasy book

Kindle is the #1 Bestselling, #1 Most Wished For, #1 Most Gifted Product on Amazon.com. And Amazon is the best place to shop on the internet. Kindle is a Wireless Reading Device. It's great if you...

Here is a great personalized gift idea for a writer: a hardcover journal you can make yourself with scrapbook photo pages and writing prompts on alternating pages. It's a cheap gift to make, but...

For many authors writing the book is the easy part. While some thrive on marketing and sales, many would prefer to let the publisher do the promotional work. Years ago, that was fine, but now most...

So your high school English teacher thought you were brilliant, and after having read your latest piece, your mom went out shopping for scrapbooks to hold your future bestseller lists. But there’s...

Learn how to use Twitter to express yourself creatively and enjoy the fun of writing for an audience!

"I was born in Montenegro and spent my early boyhood there," the great fictional detective Nero Wolfe says in author Rex Stout's successful mystery novel from 1957, "Fourth of July Picnic." "At...

So often we join sites with the thought that we will have our articles or other writings read. This is not a terrible thing. However, there is also this little notion that if you want...

William Shakespeare is perhaps the world's best known writer of all time.His works are studied across the world in middle school, high school, and college classrooms. Despite how well his...

If you're looking for a honest way to earn an extra income- By following these tips, you'll be able to start selling used Christian books written by well known Christian writers, and earn some...

For an author, signing books good business sense. Autographing books is a good way to promote good will with fans. It's also an effective way to drum up sales the book may not have enjoyed...

No matter how technically proficient you are with the English language, or how skilled you are at structuring a novel or formatting a screenplay, if you don't have a compelling story at the heart...

Teen writers, or illustrators and photographers, can be eager to publish their work. As it happens, there are a number of publishing companies willing and dedicated to publishing work from teens.

Structure is not plot, structure is about design, the foundation of your novel. It's the glue that holds your story together. Here are a few pointers that will help you build a solid arc for your...

If you enjoy reading, you probably have a favorite author. Have you ever thought about writing to your favorite author? Maybe you’d like to tell him or her how much his or her books mean to you,...

Artists have the ability to use creative and innovative problem solving skills to transform challenges into lucrative solutions. Here are five simple ways to implement the creativity of artists...

Gather your sticky notes, paper scraps, napkins, tissues, and everything else that's holding your ideas! It's time to work them into a story. This is the system that works for me.

So you have written your first book. It is in print and now you are unsure of what to do next. Maybe you are having difficulty selling your books. You can change that. There are a lot of ways to...

Georgia has a rich literary history and a strong network of Georgia authors. The Georgia Council for the Arts, The Margaret Mitchell House and Georgia Writers Association offer grants to...

If you love reading fanfiction, you'll often want to tell your favorite authors how you feel. But not every review is helpful. Here's how to really support your authors.

This eHow will show you how to publish your book and get it on Amazon.com for cheap to free.

Unlike fiction, which is able to be taken from the imagination, non-fiction comes from real life events or real people. Non-fiction is where you have your self-help books, biographies and...

Like the main character in a novel, the secondary characters play an important part. These are everything from the smallest little parts, like a person who walked by on the street, to the...

Anyone who likes to write, whether they are working on a short story or a novel, needs to have a main character. In any story, the main character is the focus that the tale develops from. You...

Many of us have thought that we would love to write a novel. Maybe something to bring tears to the eyes of our reader, or something comedic to make them laugh. Whatever your inner muse might be,...

Ehow has developed a practice of "sweeping" articles for the ostensible purpose of cleaning up their website and keeping article quality up to par. Trouble is, from what I have read...

"The Cedar Chest," a poem by Christopher Morley (1890-1957), was published in 1917 in his collection, "Songs for a Little House." The eight-line piece is about the influential American poet Emily...

I have been with eHow for approximately four months, now, and I have been enjoying writing my articles for them. Every now then, they have swept some of my articles away without any warning or...

Comfrey is an healing herb often used for wounds, sprains and bruises. Making your own extract will save money. With only a few ingredients and items which you probably already have around your...

Unless you're a writer with the ability and karma of a J.K. Rowling or John Grisham, much of your career is going to be spent looking for money. Some of your funding search will be in the form of...

In my College days at AWC,Yuma AZ 1995, I wrote about an article, "Put sincerity In Your Speaking" by L. Perry Wilbur, as published in the Toastmaster Magazine May 1982 Issue. The main...

So, you’ve decided to take on the National Novel Writing Month Challenge for the first time. Probably you’re either terrified that you’re going to fail, or ultra-excited about the coming...

This is an article on how to write a book in 1 year.

Are you a busy author juggling writing, family and another job? There are so many tasks to be taken care of in any given day that it is easy to push off marketing your book after the initial...

November is National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo). The goal is to reach 50,000 words on a novel between the 1st and 30th of November. Winning can be hard, but it is possible!

So you're participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and you're looking for tips to stay motivated? Here are some helpful bits of information to keep you writing and tackling your...

Enid Blyton was a successful children's author who was popular in the first half of the 20th century. A prolific writer, Blyton wrote over 800 books in total, many of them in juvenile series with...

For fans already familiar with Terry Pratchett's work, it is easy to see why he is one of the UK's best-selling authors. His entertaining wit in his humorous send-ups of the fantasy genre are...

An antonym is a word that has the opposite meaning of another word. For example, the antonym of the word "dog" is "cat."

I don’t know if you are like me, but writing ideas strike at the weirdest moments. I will be out running errands on a typical day. I will see or hear something that triggers an idea for an eHow...

Maya Angelou is most famous for being an American poet and author. However, Maya Angelou is also a respected historian, playwright, dancer, songwriter, stage and screen producer, performer,...

Attending a writer’s conference at any stage of one's writing career is a tremendously valuable experience. Submersed with likeminded people, inspiring literal and personal connections and...

At some point, every writer will have to make a presentation of one type or another. Good speaking skills are a necessity whether you are presenting at a writer's circle, writing seminar, pitching...

Do you have a book you want to market and promote? Are you on a tight budget? Don't fret. Here are a few tips that will help you market your book online without spending any money. Check them out.

Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain was a humorist, lecturer, essayist and author and is referred to as America's most famous literary icon. Ernest...