by Anne R. Allen I’ve blogged before with tips on choosing a book title, but recently I’ve become aware of a few other things we need to consider in the age of online bookselling. I ruminated about titles over the holidays, when I had a chance to read some titles from my TBR pile, and […]
Audiobooks are the Fastest Growing Book Market: How to Get Your Book Recorded
Audiobooks narrator C. S. Perryess at work. An Interview with Audible Narrator C. S. Perryess Audiobooks are hot. Especially for adult fiction. People like to listen to audiobooks on their phones. New audio platforms like Amazon Echo and Alexa and Google home make listening to audiobooks convenient and fun. Millennials like audiobooks. There are lots […]
13 Reasons Why You Should Write a Short Story This Month
by Anne R. Allen Mashable reported this week that the buzzword of the moment is “snackable content”—described as “bite-sized chunks of info that can be quickly ‘consumed’ by its audience.” That’s why short fiction is hot. Ditto creative nonfiction essays. But the word hasn’t reached all writers. Recently I saw a newbie writer ask for […]