Write Better: Pitch Wars Pt. 2

Today we dabble in the prep work that needs to go into your submission for Pitch Wars, and jumping right in, let's talk manuscript. You need it to be on the top of its game! How do we get there? Well here's a few things you can try Beta Readers. While there is a debate...

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Author Interview

Velvet Davis   When did you know you had the writing bug? Since I was a child I've known I wanted to be an author. I'd ask for blank notebooks as Christmas or birthday presents and I’d fill them with stories.   For anyone who may not know you, what genre do you write? I...

Mays Must Reads

This epic first installment of the de Valais Chronicles will cast a spell you’ll never forget. Kemina and Gabrielle aren’t just cousins, they are members of the illustrious De Valais family of witches. On Midsummers Eve the cousins experience the sudden death of a classmate. An event unleashed by the wrath of an obscure enemy....

Write Around The Block

Writer's block is debilitating. Crippling a writers soul purpose on this earth, the mental dam can take months to get over. Luck for you, I have some tips that just might help you overcome that feeling of being stuck. Look at books- I find a trip to the library helps sometimes. I just look at...

Write Better: Pitch Wars Part 1

The dates have yet to be set for the 2019 Pitch Wars, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be getting ready. Pitch Wars is a program helping writers make careers out of their fiction novels. They mentor fresh, polished, unpublished manuscripts into something agents and publishers can't resist. They've been at this since 2012 and...

Meet The Press: NeoLeaf Press

My name is Cassandra Albee and I author under my maiden name Cassandra DenHartog. I got started writing as a young child, but also liked to eat too much to be a starving artist. So, I became a Physical Therapy Assistant and a Massage Therapist. I traditionally published first with a small publisher, then began to...

Author Interview: Ann Morris

When did you know you were meant to be a writer? I’ve always loved to write, inspired by my mom, who loved to write. I wrote letters, diaries (that were more like books), and loved research projects. I always dreamed of writing “that book someday”, but in high school I took my first creative writing...

Rainy Day Reads

Here are April's MUST read books JUDGEMENT OF SOULS is a Gothic horror in which a naïve pure-blood Vampire is tossed into the mortal world. Rachel meets Daniel, a nightclub owner and his group of friends and after Daniel’s best friend is murdered by Max, becomes embroiled in the search. Rachel tries to fight off...

Marketing That Book

It's a question I get asked a lot. And my answer may vary based in the situation, but some factors will always remain the same. Newer, eye catching, book promos are coming out from major publishers everyday. This buries us indies in the hoards, making it even more difficult to stand out. Today, I want...