Let’s Talk Book Covers
In our Author + Entrepreneur series we open the discussion on the importance of book covers as a tool to attract attention in a competitive landscape. The original post is entitled Author +...
View ArticleDid You Hear This? Audio Books
In recent news Kbuuk joined forces with VoiceBunny, a company that The Next Web named on of it’s list of 13 Promising Tech Startups to Watch in 2013, to provide independent authors access to the audio...
View ArticleWhy I Won’t Write about Mardi Gras and Why You Should
Happy Fat Tuesday to everyone out there! Today Christina shares her thoughts on Mardi Gras. So don’t forget to do some reading, writing, and idea gathering during your purple, green, and gold revelries...
View ArticleIt’s Raining Meteors in Russia and a Writer’s Response
A few months back we offered a Friday writing prompt to spark imagination and spur the creative juices of our followers. Well, we’re back at it again. How’s this for a writing prompt: What do you do...
View ArticleTips on Writing Relationships in Romance Stories
Today Christina shares her thoughts on what makes and breaks the relationship aspect of romance reads. Writing About Relationships…Zzzzz If you’ve read any of my other posts, you know by now that I’ve...
View ArticleKbuuk Responds to the Changing Needs of the Modern Self-Published Author and...
Last week was O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference (Maria Popova of Brain Pickings and Evan Williams of Twitter, yeah @ev, gave talks, we’re sure those would have been fun), and coming up this week...
View ArticleBooks Supplying Oscar Nominations – Oscar Nominations and My High Horse
The Oscars are this weekend, and the nominees for best movie include a whole slew of titles adapted from books. Christina shares her thoughts on books that are made into movies. Oscar Nominations and...
View ArticleWord Matters
As writers we have a responsibility to preserve a language that helps us to communicate with one another. It is important that we know the rules, and that we try to adhere to them, or at least when we...
View ArticleTwo Types of Christian Literature I Enjoy
We’re two weeks into Lent, and we hope you didn’t give up anything extreme, like the Internet or reading, but during this time of Christian reflection and abstinence, we wanted to touch upon the topic...
View ArticleHow to Celebrate National Poetry Month
Poetry is strange and wonderful thing. It can be short and free flowing or epic and structured and everything in between. From Haikus to Ballads to Sonnets, couplets and quatrains, exact rhyme and...
View Article10 Things to Do Every Writing Week
Often the thing that hinders us from completing our writing goals is an ability to complete the writing. As creatures of habit, it often boils down to our daily writing habits. The reason books such as...
View ArticleCheers! Knowing Your Pub(lishing) Terms – Part I
While we all know the importance of being able to confidently order a signature drink at a bar while winking at someone across the room – “Hey bartender, I’ll have the mango mojito,” we thought you...
View ArticleCheers! Knowing Your Pub(lishing) Terms – Part II
Here’s to a second round of handy pub terms! Please write responsibly… Isn’t learning about publishing terms fun? Cheers! Query Letter – This is a letter writers send to publishers or literary agents...
View Article10 Fun Things Indie Authors Can Do On Kbuuk
Whether you’ve been using Kbuuk since we launched, or you’re new to the platform here are 10 features that are fun to use that will help you out in your self-publishing journey. Interact with readers....
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