My five o’clock in the morning option is that the UK publishing world is long overdue for a disruptive newcomer. It is well known that ideas had in the wee small hours come in two flavours – terrible and crazy. It is the crazy ones you have to look out […]
Do you have a question that you would like answers to? We may be able to help. It is quite common to have questions. Questions are nothing to be ashamed of. Not getting answers – now that’s a bit silly. Fortunately our community seems to be pretty good at answering […]
What is your ideal writing space like? Is all you need a room with a lock on the door and a hot meal inside you? I’m asking this question because the 90th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is fast approaching. There is a large scale poll […]
Possibly the most important page on an author’s blog is the about page. Yet, this vital about page is too often left out. Today I am going to take a look at the humble about page and why it is so important for establishing your platform as an author. Without […]
The HG Wells Short Story Competition has been announced for 2019 and the theme, this year is “time“. The HG Wells Short Story Competition closes Monday 8th July 2019. Which is the date us regular writers need to have entered by and the date those of us with a Tardis […]
When I started researching for a post about the UK’s smaller publishers, I soon realised that it was a big topic and that others had already started to cover it really well. So, instead of copying the work of others, I want to give the credit where it is due. […]
Author Buzz is pleased to announce a new experiment – the Say Blog. Say is a mix of author quotes, publisher insights, and member opinion. It is open to all members to express their opinion on whatever topic they might wish as well as sharing news on interesting things UK […]
Would it not be amazing if you could prepare a large number of tweets and have them posted to twitter gradually – a few every day? What about if that same method improved reputation management and SEO too while allowing you to reach another audience segment. There are tools that […]
Few authors are able to write full time and most of us consider our career a failure. Why is that and what can we do about it? I wrote in my personal blog that I was going to spend this year looking at what authors and writers do that fail. […]
When you run a blog, maintaining a publishing schedule can seriously increase its effectiveness. The WordPress Editorial Calendar is one such way to manage this task. The editorial calendar is something we added right after the last big update. It is a tool to help you plan your posts, and […]
You may have heard of reputation management perhaps as a part of an SEO tutorial but do you know it can be an important part of self marketing for authors? When it comes to online marketing the search results for your own name or brand are your reputation. Ethically questionable […]
Short stories are, I feel, an underappreciated tool available to novelists. Not only can writing short form fiction offer a refreshing change of pace but they can be used to both earn money and promote yourself as an author. Here are some of the surprising applications of short stories to […]
