Getting Published in Fantasy - Why is it so Hard?

Fantasy publishing in a small market like South Africa is tough, but even worldwide it's very hard to get published. Most Fantasy books are produced by a few (big) publishing houses in the UK and USA. I only began to understand the reason why it is so hard to get published when I became a publisher myself.

8 Seconds to Grab a Reader's Attention

When an interested person considers buying your book, she will go through a series of quick decisions before determining if the book is a worthwhile investment of her time and money. This decision making process begins with an appraisal of the book cover.

Sales Letter Writing - How to Get the Right Structure for Your Sales Letter

Selling can be difficult. But having the right sales copy that would help you with this, it would not be a problem at all. Have your customers read the whole thing and you would not have to do any more to make more sales.

What My Dog Taught Me About Getting Published

My dog, Luther showed me how to get published. Okay, I confess. I'm already published and was really just looking for a way to adore my dog and count it as writing time. Even so, I think he had some great ideas!

Building Customer Relationships Through Enewsletters

How to market yourself, your website or your products and build a strong customer base through the use of effective enewsletters.

The 188+ stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth): Learning the Ways of the New World

188+ stages of the Hero's Journey you need to know about...

Want to Write a Book? Start With an Article!

The easiest way to approach writing a book is to write it as a series of articles But don't stop there. You can use your article to find out more about your audience and what they really want to read-quickly, simply, and at no cost to you! Here's how.

How to Get a Book Published - How Do Book Publishers Get books into the Bookstores

After the agents, editors, and the marketing departments at publishing houses have all made their decisions about what will be published, in what quantities, and how the finished product will look, there is one final decision maker who ultimately decides what books will be presented for sale to consumers: The buyer for the bookstores.

Great Technical Writing - Improve Your Readers' Access With a Visual Index

People are visual creatures. They look at your product, and see, for example, a button or display. They want to find out about that control or indicator. A Visual Index is a simple but powerful document access tool that enables your Readers to find the information that they want. This article describes the Visual Index concept and tells how to create one for your document.

Memory, Senses and Writing

This articles emphasize on the advantages of writing whether it is on your diary or writing lectures, writing important dates. How writing keep you well memorized is all what you read it inside article.

Writing the Best Sales Letter

Sales letter writing, just like any other marketing instrument, is geared towards helping any businessman to attract consumers to purchase the product that is being promoted and eventually increase the sales. Considering that these tools are typically helpful in advertising products, however, there are still sales letter materials that are not...

188 Stage Hero's Journey (Monomyth) - Transformation

188 stages of the Hero's Journey (Monomyth) you need to know about...

How To Write In The Children's Market (Part 4)

This is going to be my fourth article of many to come. The article series is the how to when it comes to writing in the children's market. It is going to be a considerably long series so keep checking back for new updates.

Fierceness of Intent

When you want something badly enough you can have it, provided you are willing to do what it takes.

Creative Writing, Fictional Works and Tools that Writers Can Use

There are many creative writing tools and software for today's serious writers. Creative writing, writing novels and excellent works of fiction are not easy in the least. Most people who write choose a robust word processing program and the most common is Microsoft Word 2007. There are a few folks who recommend Word Perfect or Linux's word processing program. Generally these folks are anti-Microsoft and will not admit Microsoft is better. There are some special writer software programs out there and you can find them by searching Microsoft Live Search, Yahoo or Google, the ones I have found are: