On what online piracy really means for authors and musicians; and why it’s all really the fault of Big Tobacco.
Month: February 2016
Dissecting The Blurb Part 3: Short Stories, Self-Help And Literary Fiction
In the third and final part of ‘what the hell is a book blurb and how am I supposed to write one’, we explore the genres of Short Stories – from both famous and less famous authors; Self-Help, and Literary Fiction. Sort of.
Dissecting The Blurb Part 2: Crime, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction/Fantasy
In the second part of ‘what the hell is a book blurb and how am I supposed to write one’, we explore the genres of Crime, Historical Fiction, and Science Fiction/Fantasy. Sort of.
Dissecting The Blurb: It’s A Formula, Not A Torture Instrument
What is a book blurb and how the hell do you write one? Is there a magic formula? Well, as it happens, there kind of is. And I’m sort of going to give it to you.
10 Classic Novels Marketed As If They Had Been Written By Women
How would some of the world’s best-loved classic novels have been marketed if they’d been written by women? Might their blurbs have read differently, or other themes have been pushed forward? I don’t know. But I’m going to make jokes about it all the same.
Tara Sparling writes 