In the 1982 Romantic Drama movie, An Officer and a Gentleman, starring Richard Gear and Louis Gossert Jnr, Zack, a naval aviation candidate (played by Gere), who was raised by a drunken father, has some issues with authority. He locks heads with his hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in his training as a […]
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5/5 7 Steps to Finding Flow: Flip the Script on Stress Building the author inside you is a balancing act. While it is important to build craft and business skills, there comes a time you need to build something different. I noticed that most of my focus has been on ensuring I take the
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The Birth of A Horror Author Remember, procrastination is a sickness with no cure. It will kill your dreams if you don’t step forward, and at least try to achieve your goals. Stained Torment It still seems as if I’m in my own bubble, just waiting for it to burst, so that reality to slap
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Quitting, Tantrums and Asking Questions How to progress your self publishing author career? This week my ten-year-old daughter mangled a sheet of paper as she tried to erase the offensive lines from the page. She had found a video on YouTube that showed you how to draw a cat, but somehow her cat did not
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by JD Kizza Don’t Quit on Your Dreams This was not like the movies — I wouldn’t go from Unpublished Manuscript to International Bestseller in the space of 2 hours. Reading culture in South Africa wasn’t that great, even then, and who would invest in an unknown, female, black, Ugandan author, no matter how good
by Dave Henderson Hey, I’m Dave. You might not know me, however, here’s the important bit…I help authors. Specifically, I help authors, writers, poets and busy business people shape their writing into a book that sells. Moving from the draft document, navigating around, daunting publishing obstacles, through to a professionally polished book, published and ready
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by Kim Vermaak How big is your game? This is a question that I often ask self-published authors. I love the bucket list authors, but I give kudos to the growth minded authors. The ones who will do whatever it takes to grow their author brands. Before we look at some of the tools to
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5/5 Reader Magnets: Build Your Author Platform and Sell more Books on Kindle Building a successful author career depends on three things… You need to attract the right readers to your work. You need to convert “curious visitors” into fans. And you need to turn “fans” into “buyers”. You can do all this with
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by Kim Vermaak Imagine coming to the end of your life and asking, what did I really achieve? Many people have a “Writing a Book” on their bucket list. A bucket list is an opportunity to reflect on what is important to you and allow you to tick off important milestones for you. But how
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