We are living in a visual age. Nearly every day, around 5 billion videos are watched on YouTube alone. 5 billion, with over 30 million visitors per day! The numbers are staggering. If you have not opened your YouTube account yet, now would be a good time 😉 As an author, a video may perhaps […]
Why do we Read Classic Literature?
Do you like to read? I love reading! I love nothing more than to get comfortable in my hammock under my cherry tree with a nice page turner, a book of my choice. Classics are in many cases not always first choice; they are mandatory reading material in high school, and although I like some […]
A List of 7 Writing Strengths – Hold That Mighty Pen
Some say that writers are a different breed 😉 We often appear to be doing nothing when in fact we are busy in another world, plotting a whole new story. What to someone else is simply “staring into space” is a whole new book in the making for a writer. The crazy research that you […]
Unique Book Characters – Writing From a Man’s Point of View
Following up on my post about Seraphin (I’m working hard to polish that manuscript and get it ready for publishing 😉 ), I thought it was time to give Lucan his own article as well. Lucan is another unique book character (if I may say so myself 🙂 ) who appears in the Aurelie series. […]
Unique Book Characters – When Side Characters get Their own Book
Right now, I am working on editing a manuscript. I first wrote it three years ago, and together with Thorn Heart it was the other manuscript that was stolen by a fake publisher – yes, there were two he got his hands on, but luckily I got them both back. Thorn Heart is already released, […]
6 Best Writer’s Laptops
Today we’re getting technical. A laptop is crucial for any writer or blogger, but which are the best writer’s laptops and which ones may not be ideal for our purposes? Recently, I bought a new laptop, and before I acquired it I did some research, looking into features, memory, price, and availability in my hometown […]
Why Book Reviews are Important – Here are 5 Reasons
Being an author is no longer about just writing your story and letting others take care of it. Nowadays, an author has to be a marketer too. If you want to get your book noticed, you have to put yourself out there and market it, so that readers can see it. Every day, thousands of […]
How to Write Non-Fiction Books
Although I have always published fiction, today I started a new project, a self-help book. It had been on my mind for ages, but I did not know if I was ready for it and I was also working on Thorn Heart, which had priority at the time. Now, however, feels like the right moment […]
Coffee or Tea Mugs
What are writers always associated with? I mean, besides spending hours typing away, staring into space while a whole new story takes place in their mind, and – following stereotype – locking themselves in their writing dens for hours or days on end? The answer is coffee – or tea. Consuming endless amounts of it. […]
Daily Creative Writing Prompts
Did you start a new blog or are you thinking of writing a short story and you can’t come up with an idea? When you have a website, it is recommended to publish posts several times a week, ideally, twice or even three times if you have the time. If you can only do it […]