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Choose Your Genre Well or Not

A sage piece of advice for writers who seek commercial success is to choose and know your market before you start to write. Decide who is going to read your work and know what their expectations are. Then write to the target market. Write to fulfill those expectations. This includes understanding the requirements of different categories or genres. The expectations of romance readers about how a story should be told are different from those of readers of thrillers or fantasies. I didn’t choose the fantasy genre of The [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:12+00:00Book Publishing, Case Studies, My Blog|1 Comment

How I wrote my book/ books

Writing! What can be said about it? Are there enough words out there to describe the feeling? I wrote the ''beginning'' of a series when I was 14. I was clueless on how to proceed, lacking the ability to take it further and somehow, in the back of my mind, I always knew one day, I'd publish this book! At the tender age of 7, I visited a castle in my mom's home town in Italy. The ever lasting impression that had plagued me then, and still does [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:13+00:00Case Studies, My Blog|1 Comment

How To Self Publish From Someone Who’s Been Through It

For those of us who have already self published a book or three, we had our reasons for doing so. For those of you thinking of going this route, you may have the same reasons: you don't want to wait that long to hear back from a traditional publisher, you don't know where to begin, or if you're like me, you aren't happy with your current publisher. There are several reasons why you may to go the self publishing route, and whatever your reason, it's worth it in [...]

Radu Balas2017-05-23T09:54:47+00:00Book Editing, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Case Studies, My Blog|1 Comment

MY JOURNEY IN WRITING – A City Without Walls

As long as I have been able to write, I have always imagined becoming a famous writer one day. I fell in love with the written word and in the places that the stories took me. I published my first work in a literary magazine while in high school, but it wasn't until 2009 that I finally held my first book in my hands. My books are of a Spiritual nature and I believe were inspired by God. I knew that I wasn't writing in order to get [...]

Radu Balas2016-11-17T13:05:21+00:00Book Editing, Book Marketing, Email Marketing, Marketing, My Blog|1 Comment

A Quick Guide to Self Publishing on Createspace

The hardest part is putting all the information in the order you want as a manuscript. I think you will probably want to make a book with photographs 8.5 x 11 inches size. Novels are usually printed in 6 x 9 inch size. If you create your manuscript in the actual size you want the book, it is easier to proofread and edit it as you go along. It won’t stop you from making mistakes, but it helps. Start with a blank page as they print the book [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:15+00:00Book Publishing, Case Studies, My Blog|0 Comments

SET IT APART

One of the easiest book genres to write is children’s books. Children’s books do not have to be lengthy or got into a lot of details. The vocabulary used is simple for young children to understand. You can fill some pages with illustrations and some pages with a sentence to a short paragraph. Writing it is easy. Nothing is ever easy. Somewhere down the line, a difficulty arises. That difficulty with children’s books is not completing the project but marketing it. With a lot of writers trying to [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:19+00:00Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Case Studies, My Blog, Social Media|1 Comment

Destroy The Block

After conversing with many fellow aspiring authors over the years I’ve come across a common issue. You would think that the issue was getting started. Actually the real problem its getting passed that block that rears its’ ugly head a quarter into the process. Many authors have problems getting passed the first act. "I’ve successfully self-published two books and working on my third. Why am I saying this? Is it because I’m a show off?" At times, maybe I can be. Is it because I’m proud of the [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:20+00:00Book Publishing, Case Studies, My Blog|1 Comment

Outlines are wonderful

"Well hi there! So your probably reading this because you are a curious new author or an aspiring author. Your here because you want to widen your mind on tips for writing from other authors who have been down your path." My name is Juss Stinson and YES I am a proud author! Many authors can offer advice to you and a lot of it may even be different than another author. Don't ever feel trapped since there really are many ways to go about writing! Here are [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:21+00:00Book Marketing, Email Marketing, Marketing, My Blog|1 Comment

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

After graduating from high school I went directly to a job in the newsroom of the Vancouver Sun, one of the city’s big daily newspapers. It was a dream come true. "I wanted to be a crime reporter" and the thrill of being accepted as a copy runner (that is, an apprentice reporter, nowadays called an ‘intern’ which back then meant someone studying to be a doctor). I was the only girl ‘copy-boy’ working with one or two other young fellows who had the same dreams and aspirations as [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:22+00:00Book Editing, Case Studies, My Blog|1 Comment

The Road to Creativity

Creativity is a topic that has been studied and debated for many years and from many perspectives. Any attempt to identify the essence of creativity raises questions about the nature of human thought, rational or irrational, and consequently, its relationship to language. "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." (Werner Heisenberg) The main idea is not to "resolve" the issue of creativity for it is, by its own definition, open ended. Rather it is to raise awareness that the issue [...]

Radu Balas2017-03-07T09:24:24+00:00Case Studies, My Blog|0 Comments