Career Adviser Penelope Trunk has advice for would-be authors … don’t bother. Her advice appears on the Personal Branding Blog, so it stands to reason that she’s not talking to regular fiction or non-fiction writers (at least I hope not), but rather those looking to improve their brand by writing a book. Penelope writes: Book [...] Read more »
Publisher Doubts eBook Growth
Publisher Michael Hyatt, CEO of Christian Publishing Company Thomas Nelson Publishers, said in a recent post that he doubts eBook growth will be as fast as some industry experts believe. Hyatt cited a report that predicted half of books sold in the U.S. will be in eBook form by 2014, and threw some water on [...] Read more »
Sneak Peek: Sugar Milk – This Isn’t Kindergarten Anymore
(As Collective Inkwell evolves, we’d like to take an opportunity not only to interview other writers but to also spotlight their work. This is an excerpt from the forthcoming debut book Sugar Milk by Ron Mattocks of Clark Kent’s Lunchbox. Ron is a longtime friend of ours, a great writer, and all around nice guy, [...] Read more »
Beginning Bloggers: Go Big or Go Home
When you start out blogging, you shouldn’t push yourself too hard. After all, you’re just starting out and you gotta get a feel for how things happen around here. Isn’t that right? Not if you want to succeed, it’s not. Once you enter the club, there’s no time to dilly dally. The second you get there, you have [...] Read more »
WARNING: This Fatal Flaw Will Murder Your Writing!
There was once a princess who lived happily ever after. The end. Doesn’t make for much of a story, does it? Yet, some authors are writing stuff just like that. Only they’re taking 400 pages to do it. YAWN. Think about all the great stories you’ve read and the unforgettable movies you‘ve seen. No matter [...] Read more »
Available Darkness Has a New Home
Thank you to everyone who has welcomed our serialized horror thriller Available Darkness at Collective Inkwell. However, it is now ready to move out on its own. We’ve moved it to AvailableDarknessBook.com and would love to see you over there. We had a few reasons for this move, but mostly it boiled down to wanting [...] Read more »
The Collective Inkwell Interview: Emma Newman
Emma Newman is the author of the soon-to-be-published Twenty Years Later, her debut young adult fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic future, which she has been podcasting since last year. She lives in Somerset, England with her husband and two year old son. Though he’s an only child, she considers him her second child – [...] Read more »
Available Darkness: Chapter 38
(Serial and Milk: Available Darkness is a serialized horror thriller co-written by David Wright and Sean Platt. A new chapter appears here each Friday. If you missed previous chapters, you can read them here.) October 2, 1999 St. Augustine, Florida Hope lay in bed, mentally tracing her fingers over John’s angular jaw, across his chin, [...] Read more »
Available Darkness: Chapter 37
(Serial and Milk: Available Darkness is a serialized horror thriller co-written by David Wright and Sean Platt. A new chapter appears here each Friday. If you missed previous chapters, you can read them here.) October 2,1999 Los Angelas, California Jacob stood on the building’s ledge, wind whipping the loose charcoal suit against his wiry frame. [...] Read more »
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