Archive for the ‘Non-Fiction’ Category
Tony’s Blair’s autobiography – A Journey – that needs to sell anywhere between 500,000 and a million copies to break even, has shot up the Amazon Bestseller chart after a recent announcement that all proceeds will be donated to the Royal British Legion. Where previously it had been lurking in the depths of the sub-50s, it has now rocketed up the chard to 7th place – no mean feat for a book still a fortnight from publication!
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In recent years, autobiographies have exploded as a book genre. Previously, autobiographies were restricted to only the most high profile figures thought to have lived extraordinary lives. Even then, reading non-fictional life stories was thought to be a rather dry undertaking, usually reserved for experts and scholars. Read the rest of this entry »
These days, there are hundreds of thousands of people publishing their written work in some form or another. Be it in physical books, magazines and newspapers, or e-books, blogs, online articles and websites, the written word is now publicised in more forms than ever before. Although this is a great step for civilisation, it does make it very hard for any writer to get themselves noticed.
Not everybody who is interested in writing books necessarily knows how to go about doing so. Today we provide a basic guide to starting to write a generic informative book; not so our readers can earn themselves a Nobel Prize for Literature, but so they can get to grips with the basics of writing.
Writing e-books is becoming an increasingly popular way for amateur and small-time writers to publicise their material. However, for this very reason, it is now harder than ever to get your e-books noticed or, more importantly, to make any money from your enterprise.
In order to make money in any field, you must first ensure that what you’re doing is needed or at least wanted by the public. Read the rest of this entry »
Candace Smith was seven years old when her father explained her mother had run away with another man, before loading a big barrel into his pickup truck and driving far out of state to her grandparents’ house. If never even occurred to her to ask why the bathroom would smashed to pieces and drenched in blood…
