1. The exhilarating feeling, you get every time from clicking the publish button on one of the self-publishing platforms you’ve just uploaded your book to, reminds you why you got into this business. 2. You need to keep looking at the sales records in your Amazon KDP account every 5 minutes. 3. If your book sales stop for a day or two, you begin to get anxious. This keeps … [Read more...] about 20 Signs You Are a Self-Published Author
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Interview with Poet, Rachna Gupta
Rachna Gupta is a Pune-based published poet. We interviewed Rachna to find out about her background and her poetry including her collection of poems called Myriad Hues, published earlier this year and her upcoming work for 2015. All you budding poets are in for a treat because Rachna also shared advice on getting your poems published! Read on to find out more. Welcome to … [Read more...] about Interview with Poet, Rachna Gupta
5 Scary Truths about Becoming an Author
If you’re planning to become a book author and turn it into a career, you need to be prepared to face 5 scary truths about the profession. Don’t take it the wrong way: becoming a successful author is rewarding and yes, it can be lucrative. But before you get to that point, you need to keep the following in mind: 1. You Can’t Turn It Into a Day Job …at least, not right off the … [Read more...] about 5 Scary Truths about Becoming an Author
My Writing Room by Alice Raine
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. It’s not so much what’s inside my writing space that makes me love it so much, it’s what’s outside it that I find so inspiring. From my window I can see rugged, scree covered mountains, white boxy houses, the gold minarets of a … [Read more...] about My Writing Room by Alice Raine
Review – The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. For every person I know who completely adored The Goldfinch – an epic tale of one boy and his stolen painting - there is another who gave up on it after a couple of hundred pages because it just didn’t hold their interest. I … [Read more...] about Review – The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt