Every family gathering that you attended, you were always able to earn the applause of everyone present who heard your fascinating stories. You felt you had so much success with your family that you decided to write your stories down and make them into a book. However, before you embark on that crusade, you must first decide on how to make your book known. This is why eBooks are becoming more and more popular everyday. Writers from all over the world will go to eBook publishers in order to distribute their work faster and easier as well as to make it more accessible. Writing a book serves no purpose at all if you are unable to have it printed and ...

Writing a children’s book seems easy: how hard can it be to write a few dozen pages, most of which are illustrated anyway? Harder than it looks, if you ask writer Susan Marie Swanson of St. Paul, Minnesota. Swanson’s latest book, The House in the Night, awarded the Caldecott Medal in 2009, took her about ten years to write, edit, and re-edit to perfection. Often, it’s because they’re so short and simple that children’s books are challenging. More than just tell stories, they should “inspire, intrigue, and uplift,” according to publisher Brett Waldman. It’s not the kind of thing you can do over a weekend. Even someone with advanced degrees can take ...

The Information Age may have changed the landscape of publishing, but writers still rely on one age-old tool to push their craft: word of mouth. UK columnist Robert McCrum calls it the “holy grail of publishing.” J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown both owe much of their success not to brilliant PR or cutting-edge marketing, but to casual conversation between book-loving friends. Word of mouth has taken on a new form since the advent of the Internet and social networking, of course. Whereas Victor Gollancz, in the early days of his eponymous publishing firm, had to pay others to read his books and get word around, the likes of Amanda Hocking merely have ...

The United States has seen a terrible slump in almost all sectors of the economy in the 1980s. During this decade, the national debt ballooned, many industries folded and unemployment rate was at an all time high. Many families, especially from the poor and middle class, had difficulties making ends meet. This could be seen as the worst time in the US economy since the Great Depression.Now, Americans are once again facing the brunt of yet another economic turmoil, what with the looming global financial crisis.Set in the 1980’s, the Xlibris self-published book, ‘Another Sort of Life’ is where John Calvert shares the pains of being “down on one’s luck” as he ...

When communication becomes the harbinger to being ahead in society, one should never consider it a reason to binge on self-pity and extract oneself from the outside world. Rose Pizzo did exactly the opposite.Growing up with the loss of her hearing posed a great challenge for Rose who was raised in a hearing family. Having worked as a Data Entry Operator for several years, she describes her daily life as fun but with degree of difficulty and effort in it. She shares her stories in the book, Growing Up Deaf: Issues of Communication in a Hearing World.Stories of being left out and ostracized, which sometimes make the spirit weak, are explored in ...