Sarah Dalton writes young adult novels. She's earned a following among fans of YA genre fiction with such speculative series as Blemished, Mary Hades, and White Hart. Dalton's big break, however, came under her pen name, Sarah A. Denzil. Read more
Some sensational figures have just been released showing the trend towards book sales in print form as opposed to ebook is continuing, as sales of consumer ebooks in the UK dropped by a whopping 17%. These figures exclude self-published titles, which have contributed a large proportion of the ebook sales. But more than 50% of genre sales are now reckoned to be in ebook form.
Some sensational figures have just been released showing the trend towards book sales in print form as opposed to ebook is continuing, as sales of consumer ebooks in the UK dropped by a whopping 17%. These figures exclude self-published titles, which have contributed a large proportion of the ebook sales. But more than 50% of genre sales are now reckoned to be in ebook form. Read more
Here are some things that you can't do with a Kindle. You can't turn down a corner, tuck a flap in a chapter, crack a spine (brutal, but sometimes pleasurable) or flick the pages to see how far you have come and how far you have to go. You can't remember something potent and find it again with reference to where it appeared on a right- or left-hand page. You often can't remember much at all. Read more
Forty years ago this month, a small group of campaigning writers founded an organisation which now pays out around £30 million a year to its writer members for secondary uses of their works.
There are different types of book editing - including proofreading, copy-editing, and developmental editing - for different stages of the publication process. You should be aware of what kind of editing your manuscript needs and what is involved in each type.
By far the most common entry-level mistake in the writing game, the thing that can get a perfectly good story rejected by an editor on the first page, is overwriting: a writing voice that is laden with energy and adjectives, that tries too hard, that is self-conscious in a way that detracts from the story, that is obviously the work of a writer trying to poeticize a story that doesn't stand a c Read more
Amazon's rapid rise to prominence in the translation of foreign prose to English - which has drawn appreciation, but also some suspicion by members of the translation community - is yet another sign of the online retailer's growing cultural significance.
Too often, an independent author writing a memoir doesn't deliver the sort of book readers at large can appreciate. Your task is to tell an interesting story, and you should avoid making these six mistakes.