Publishing

New authors have many avenues to publish a new book, but you should always be very careful with your book rights. At the top of the list of options is traditional publishing, with the five big publishers and their numerous imprints. Then follow medium and small press publishers. There are also hybrid publishers, micro-publishers, vanity…

Penguin Random House has booted Author Solutions. Media reports have confirmed the sale of Author Solutions by Penguin Random House. It will abandon its venture into expensive self-publishing and concentrate on traditional publishing in the future. This article is now dated but remains online for reference value. Author Solutions is infamous For those who may…

Despite Amazon’s paid book review clean-out after the revelations by John Locke about paying for book reviews, nothing has changed at all. Well, apart from the fact that Amazon deleted a lot of honest ones during their cull at the time. Amazon did not take much more than token action against paid book reviews back then.…

Using free images from the Internet in a blog post is as easy as doing a quick Google Image Search. But how do you know if you can legally or at least responsibly use Internet images online on your blog or social media? Is the image copyright protected or not? Images with watermarks or a…

I need a book publisher! Slow down. If you are a nonfiction or fiction author, be wary of small publishers or vanity publishers offering you a quick and easy way to publish your book. I receive many messages and emails from authors who have encountered disagreements, problems, or doubts about some publishers. Unsurprisingly, the benefits of…