By popular demand, we’ve added this archive page to help you find past articles. They’re loosely arranged by category, with date, author and a line of explication. Browse to your heart’s content! And if you want to submit a guest post, just get in touch via the contact page.
Book promotion and marketing
Jousting Windmills 05/16 GD
Do Google Ads sell books?
The Long View (reviewed) 05/16 Atthys
Getting reviews for your book
How It Could Work 05/16 Atthys
A possible marketing plan
Selling Your Baby 06/16 Sue Ranscht
Out of the box marketing
It’s All Personal 07/16 Perry Palin
Selling your book face to face
Where Now? 07/16 Curtis
Strategies for marketing your second book
Report From The Front Lines 08/16 Atthys
The effect of free ebook promotions
Anything Goes 10/16 Mimi
Proactively promoting your book
What’s Your Plan? 11/16 Mimi
Putting a marketing plan together
Online presence
Here We Are 04/16 Curtis
Initial aims of the co-op
This Blogging Biz 05/16 Curtis
The effect of having a blog
My Approach to Website Design 05/16 Mimi
What a good website should look like
What I Did This Weekend 08/16 Mimi
Playing with the way your website looks
Styles of Promotion 09/16 Mimi
Different ways of promotion and how the co-op site might develop
Some Input, Please 10/16 Mimi
What makes a good website design?
On Extending Our Reach 12/16 Mimi
How to boost the co-op website
A Path 12/16 GD
Towards a wiki for writers
QUOTES 2016 12/16 GD
All falls end and in this universe, as in life, we are all falling. But our first year feels like we are in for a very long fall.
Publishing
I’ve looked at publishing from both sides now 05/16 Atthys
Traditional vs. Self-publishing
It’s A Grand Game 05/16 Mimi
Challenges facing the writer
Like The Fond, Uncounted Rain 07/16 Atthys
A satirical look at the future of publishing
The Secret Agent Plan 07/16 Atthys
Landing an Agent
Publishing Through A Start-Up Independent Publisher 07/16 Tom Wolosz
Publishing with Bookkus
How Genre Dysphoria Is Ruining My Writing Career 09/16 Atthys
The pitfalls of having to choose a genre for your book
Many A Slip 09/16 Curtis
A hiccup on the way to releasing book number two
Got You Covered 10/16 Atthys
The effect created by the book cover
What Would You Do? 10/16 Curtis
A tricky publishing dilemma
Study Finds Number of Writers May Soon Exceed Readers 11/16 Atthys
On the deluge of books submerging readers
The Bestseller Recipe 11/16 Curtis
So now they know what makes a bestseller
Writing – A Team Sport? 10/16 DJ Lutz
The benefits of participating in an anthology
Self-Publishing is the Way to Go 2/17 GD
Publishers were only necessary because writers lacked printing presses.
Readers and reading
Just Wanna Be Misunderstood 07/16 Atthys
How readers react to your book in their reviews
The Kingdom Of Speech 09/16 GD
A review of Tom Wolfe’s book about the origin of language
Conversation With A Troll 09/16 GD
A troll’s reaction to a book review
‘Tis The Season 06/16 Mimi
Buying books at a book sale
How The Other Half Reads 09/16 Mimi
An abridged version of an article in Slate about reader reviews
This Way Madness Lies, But So What 12/16 Atthys
Reaction to a negative review
Serialisation
The Channillo Challenge 06/16 Curtis
Writing a series for the Channillo website
Tomb of the Unknown Writer 12/16 GD
Faux excerpt from Bob vs The Aliens
Serialisation, part 1 06/16 Mimi
The ins and outs of publishing serialised fiction
Serials: The Little Engine That Could? 08/16 Mimi
An analysis of serialisation as a means to selling fiction
Writers
The Women Men Don’t See, Indeed 06/16 Atthys
Introducing James Tiptree / Alice Sheldon
Writers Criticizing Writers 08/16 GD
Spiteful but funny quotes from writers about other writers
The First Named Author 08/16 GD
On the Sumerian poet Enheduanna
Get Off Y’r Butts and Write 09/16 GD
Do we need to experience life to write about it?
Carl E Reed, Where Are You? 10/16 Mimi
How we manage to keep on writing regardless
Oh Spark Divine 10/16 Atthys
Aspiring to greatness and the well of creativity we dip into
The Book a Break Short Story Competition 11/16 Curtis
The experience of running a literary competition
In Defence of “Escapist” Literature 12/16 Carl Reed
Good ‘escapist’ fiction rivals ‘interpretive’ fiction
Midnight in Paris 3/17 GD
Have all the Great books been written?
Writing Technique
Cold Open 06/16 Atthys
How to do the opening of your novel
What A Day For A Dream Sequence 06/16 Atthys
Dream sequences in fiction
The Monstrous and The Metaphorical 09/16 Atthys
A discussion of the ‘metaphor made flesh’ in fiction
Me And Hemingway 11/16 Atthys
The complexity (or not) of your sentences
On Characters, Thrills and Getting Laid 08/16 Curtis
Psychology, or the lack of, in thrillers
Writing Charms 10/16 GD
How a talisman can help you write
IDK 11/16 GD
Truth versus facts in fiction
Beyond The Net 11/16 GD
Researching your novel other than on internet
Nonsense And Stuff 07/16 Jack Penny
Writing nonsense fiction
These Dancing Feet 06/16 Mimi
Researching material for your novel
Bear Grylls, Here We Come! 10/16 Mimi
Different ways of approaching descriptions and psychology
POV explained 12/16 Carl
An easily digestible guide to point of view
GMTA 1/17 GD
Where do your story ideas come from?
Characters Matter 2/17 GD
The impact on Humanity of Fictional Characters.
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