From all of us at BookMojo, HAPPY NATIONAL AUTHORS DAY!
Guest Post! WRITING WIDE by J.S. Wayne
Writing Wide I’m easily bored. I hate convention. I hate tropes, though I often find myself weaving them into my stories without conscious intent. I despise “the usual” and am always looking for a way to do things differently, some way to shake up the system and cause a little disruption in people’s expectations. This …
New Release & a Personal Note from Jena Gregoire! Check out COCKTALES, a limited-release anthology to benefit authors impacted by #cockygate!
Good afternoon, readers! I don’t normally include a personal note on new release announcements but this one actually hits home for every author out there, no matter the genre. As you may have heard, an author by the name of Faleena Hopkins made the very poor choice to trademark a common use word (cocky) and …
RANDOMS by Jena: James Patterson is a marketing mastermind – pre-releases self-destructing book!
Seriously, as if this man wasn’t awesome enough, he goes and pulls this little stunt. His upcoming release Private Vegas (hitting bookshelves and ereaders on January 26th) is being pre-released. But there’s a catch. The frikkin book self-destructs. Yeah, you read that right. 1000 lucky iPad-owning fans (the ONE TIME I wish I owned an …
GUEST POST PART II by Author Jack Welles: Language and the Genre Novel
This is an excerpt from my booklet how I go about “Writing a Genre Novel” the full version of which is available for free on my website. I would like to start by putting the excerpt into context by giving a summary of the overview of my approach. I think of genre writing as having …
GUEST POST PART I by Author Jack Welles: Research And Planning for a Genre Novel
This is an excerpt from my booklet how I go about “Writing a Genre Novel” the full version of which is available for free on my website. I would like to start by putting the excerpt into context by giving a summary of the overview of my approach. I think of genre writing as having …
RANDOMS by Kendra: A Dress and a Muse (@kendrybird , @DmitrySholokhov)
It was a last minute trip, planned only a week in advance. I would journey from New Hampshire to New York City by some means of transportation and buy a dress from Dmitry Sholokhov’s collection while he made an in-store appearance. Two amazing girlfriends of mine made this whole thing happen, one, Steph, by offering …
RANDOMS: Show Your Support and Take a Stand Against eBook Piracy!
Hey readers! Â Jena here. Â As most of you are aware, Pure Textuality is a site that is a lover of all books – traditional and indie published alike. Â A rising problem in the publishing industry as a whole is the piracy of eBooks. As an indie author, I can tell you that there is a …
RANDOMS: Google’s Happy Birthday Message for Douglas Adams
I am one of those people that adores Douglas Adams and I am loving today’s Google Doodle in honor of his birthday!  Head on over to Google.com to see the interactive Google Doodle!
RANDOMS by Jena: The Perils of Using Stock Images and Cover Clones
There have been a few times over the past year where I have thought about doing this post and I put it off thinking that you all would read it and think I was just picking on authors. That is not the case and I want to get that out right away. I think that …
RANDOMS by Jena: Jena’s Adventure in Writing a Novel: Part IV
So, before I started writing this post I went back and read Part III of this little series. Â MAN, has a lot happened since my last update. Â Well, first I guess there’s that little detail of me being a PUBLISHED AUTHOR.
RANDOMS: Happy 165th Birthday Bram Stoker!
Today marks what would have been Bram Stoker’s 165th birthday! So Happy Birthday to you Mr. Stoker! Without your most famous piece of work, Dracula, we wouldn’t have the likes of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire Mysteries and even the sparkly non-badass vamps of Twilight that serve as so many readers’ very own guilty pleasure. …
RANDOMS: My Chat With Kerrelyn Sparks (@avonbooks, @kerrelynsparks)
As I’ve mentioned before, I was lucky enough to get picked for this term of Avon Addicts with Avon Books. Â Tonight, we had an Shindig video chat with Kerrelyn herself. Â We talked about everything from publishing to her Love At Stake series and her newest release The Forbidden Lady.
RANDOMS: Jena’s Adventures in Writing a Novel: Part IV & Cover Reveal
It’s been a little while now since my last update so when I got done with my to-do list today, I decided to drop a line.Â
RANDOMSby Jena: Jena’s Adventure in Writing a Novel: Part III
I am happy to report that I am in the full swing of rewriting my novel. All the ideas that have been bubbling up here and there since my musically induced breakthrough I had during my last check-in finally started to drop together in a coherent story line. Â
RANDOMS by Jena: Jena’s Adventure in Writing a Novel: Part II
Back on January 19th, I confessed to all of you that I am an aspiring writer. At that point, I gave you a little bit of back story on how I got started. If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet, click here to do so. I will wait…… *queue elevator music* You’re …
GUEST POST: Top 10 Heroine Stereotypes by Amber Lynn Natusch (@AmberLNatusch)
So I saw an amazing post from another Indie author regarding what makes a male lead sexy. It was tongue in cheek and fabulous…and it inspired me to want to do my own take on this idea with female lead cliches. Thanks, Dannika Dark, for the inspiration! Â
RANDOMS: Jena's Adventure In Writing a Novel: Part I
Back in 2005, I was struck with inspiration. It started because I was a majorly, and I mean MAJORLY, huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. I used to read the Buffy novels for quick pastime reading (averaging 1 or 2 of them in a day). They’re basically paperback fan fiction and they had a lot …