Marianne Arkins: Grammar freak and coffee lover, Marianne wrote her first novel at ten years old, built her first commercial website in 2000, and published for the first time in 2006. On August 27, 2007, she and Judy started Long and Short Reviews in an...
Gary Morris is the author of Miao Shan: The Awakening, a historical fantasy novel, with dark fantasy, paranormal, and urban fantasy aspects to it. Miao Shan is not like anything you have ever read before. Yes, there are aspects you might recognize from other forms...
Based in Dublin, Ireland, Jay Spencer Green has worked as a writer and professional editor for the past 25 years, first for a major US academic publisher and subsequently as a freelancer. On three consecutive occasions, his novels have won the Comedy category in ReadFreely.com’s...
You’ve heard me saying this countless times: life’s hard for the small fish, aka the self-published author. With the volume of self-published books nowadays, it’s way harder than ten, even five years ago to actually sell and make a name for yourself. If you self-publish exclusively...
My name is Esther Rabbit and I am a writer and content creator for upcoming authors. As soon as you take your first step in the writing industry, the name Damonza is everywhere. Vloggers praise the design guru & his team, and most importantly, all...
Born in 1942 at Hokitika, Ian Miller writes fiction that explores the scientific, political, and business ideas formulated during his lifetime of travel, business development, and his career as a theoretical and applied scientist. An original and daring thinker, he sets out to challenge our...
Meet Alex R. Carver. He's worked a number of jobs over the years, none of which provided the satisfaction he got from writing, so he has now given up the day jobs to write full-time. Primarily he writes crime fiction, reflecting his interest in the...
Jennie Rosenblum is young in the editor world, having left her job as a librarian to pursue working with Independent Authors just three years ago. She likes people and prefers a face to face (or Skype to Skype) conversation over a text exchange. Jennie offers editing...
Karen Eisenbrey lives in Seattle, WA, where she leads a quiet, orderly life and invents stories to make up for it. Although she intended to be a writer from an early age, until her mid-30s she had nothing to say. A little bit of free...
I recently wrote a post on books that got a one-star star review for the most ludicrous of reasons. It fired up both Twitter and Goodreads and people had, as always, mixed opinions on the matter. Given the success of Dear One-Star Reviewer, I asked fellow...