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Yearly archives: 2024

How many words should a novel have? That’s a question I’ve seen many times. Just recently, user Burty Burtman asked in the forums, “How long is a novel?“ The answer is that for novel word counts it depends. Any numbers you can get are, at best, rule-of-thumb with many exceptions. […]

How many words should a novel have?

25th April 2024 in Advice tagged novel / questions / research / word count by Matthew Brown

Most of you will probably know that Sanderson refused to use Audible for some reason projects because he felt they were taking advantage of indie authors. In a recent blog post, Sanderson announced the big news that Audible had listened and was taking action. I felt that the industry was […]

Brandon Sanderson changes audiobooks for the better

17th April 2024 in Writer News tagged Audible / audiobooks / Author Platform / Brandon Sanderson by Matthew Brown

grayscale photography of person holding pen — Hey there fellow writers. What are you working on right now? I want to hear about your Work In Progress (WIP).

Tell us about your WIP

14th April 2024 in Becoming an author tagged WIP / writing life by Matthew Brown

pages on an opened book — Hodder & Stoughton (a publisher that is part of Hachette UK) are offering a free workbook with pre-orders of The Third Perspective by Africa Brooke. I could find exactly nothing at all to say what would be in that workbook. While you can preorder here (T&Cs apply) Hodder’s news feed […]

Hodder offers bonus workbook for some other book where some ...

7th March 2024 in Writer News tagged Africa Brooke / Author Platform / Hachette UK / Hodder / Hodder & Stoughton / influencer by Matthew Brown

Previously, I recommended authors shift from Twitter to Mastodon. In this post, I am going to give some hints and tips for how to get the most out of Mastodon as a writer. First, some notes Here is a poll of what Mastodon users love most about Mastodon. Here is […]

A Writers’ Guide to Mastodon (with Dark Side tricks)

9th February 2024 in Social Media tagged Author Platform / authors / CammelCaseYourTags / dark side / instances / introduction / LikeThis / Mastodon / SuperbOwl / writers by Matthew Brown

As you might guess from the name, Author Buzz is a project that started in the UK and the focus will always have a UK slant to it. However, our community is open to book enthusiasts from all over the world. We do not discriminate. Whoever you are, you are […]

A Fediverse #Introduction to Author Buzz UK

25th January 2024 in Site News tagged Author Platform / authors / books / introduction / writers by Matthew Brown