self publishing
How to Promote Your Book With Short Cartoon Videos
Most book promotion on social media looks the same. A cover, a link and a line that says “my new book is out”. It rarely works, and it isn’t hard to see why. Nobody stops scrolling for an advert, and that’s exactly what it looks like. Yet a book is full of the things that […]
How to Write a Thriller Novel (With AI): A Real Guide
How to write a thriller novel that readers finish: the promise, the twist, planting fair clues, pacing, editing AI drafts and launching on Amazon KDP. Thrillers are one of the most-read genres on Amazon, and thriller readers are a gift to a new author. They don’t read one book. They read a shelf. Finish one, […]
How to Write a LitRPG Novel & Lessons Learnt Publishing One
If you’ve never heard of LitRPG, you’ve almost certainly seen the idea. In Jumanji, four teenagers get pulled into a video game, wake up with a list of strengths and weaknesses, and have to level up to get home. Now imagine that as a series of novels. That’s LitRPG, short for “literary role-playing game”: stories […]
How to Write Science Fiction With AI (Without the AI Mush)
Ask an AI to “write a science fiction story” and you’ll get something. It’ll have a spaceship, probably. Someone will gaze at the stars. Everything will be resolved neatly in the last paragraph. It won’t be something anyone wants to read twice. The good news is that the problem isn’t really the AI. It’s the […]
How to Write Narrative History: A Practical Guide for Authors
Most people who say they’d like to write a book don’t actually want to write a novel. They want to write about something that happened. The war they’ve read about for twenty years. The disaster they can’t stop watching documentaries about. The expedition, the siege, the trial, the family story that turns out to be […]
How To Keep Every Reader You Find
The Author Newsletter: How To Keep Every Reader You Find (And Always Know What To Send) You spent months writing the book. You got it published. You even found some readers. And then they vanished. Back into Amazon. Back into Facebook, TikTok, Wattpad, Medium or wherever they happened to find you. The next time you […]
How to Publish Christian Fiction on KDP: A Practical Guide
Christian fiction has its own category tree, its own reader expectations and its own communities. Here’s how to publish into it so readers find you. Every piece of KDP advice tells you to find an underserved niche. Then everyone goes and looks in the same three places, finds them thoroughly served, and concludes the whole […]
How to Write Serial Fiction That Readers Come Back To
Serial readers decide whether to continue at the end of every episode. Here’s the craft, the platform mechanics and the audience-first publishing plan. Most self-published novels launch to nobody. Not because they are bad. Because the author spent eight months writing, hit publish, and only then began wondering where readers come from — by which […]
How I Used AI To Write KDP GameLit Novel
I Used AI To Write a 630+ Page Novel. Here’s What Actually Worked. What started as a KDP experiment turned into 102,737 words, 32 chapters, an author site and the first book in a planned trilogy. I recently got sucked into the KDP self-publishing world, and somewhere along the way I accidentally became a fiction […]