David Viergutz, a disabled Army and Law Enforcement Veteran, writes diverse horror and dark fiction. Encouraged by his wife, he now pens tales fearlessly in a candle-lit room, always smiling.
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Business expert Joe Solari has been a boon to countless indie authors, applying business-first advice to help skyrocket careers long before he was named managing director of Author Nation. His stout guidance can be found on podcasts, in his course on author...
How Three Horror Story Staples Can Appear in Every Genre When a writer approaches the Horror genre, deciding to leap into the deepest pits of despair and crawl out of it dragging a kicking and screaming manuscript, they often use popular movies and television shows as inspiration. They try to...
From Detective Inspector Declan Walsh to Doctor Who, Tony Lee’s Career Has Been Anything But Ordinary—Even for an Author For thirty-plus years, multi-modal writer Tony Lee has been no stranger to the industry. He started by writing game reviews for a British magazine at sixteen years old, and...
Using Both Organic and Paid Traffic to Build a Sustainable Book Business Under the umbrella of traffic, you can attract a potential reader’s attention in two ways: naturally, through your interactions with readers online, through social media, or in person; or by nurturing a new connection with paid advertising...
The Differences between Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, and Literary Fiction Romance is, without a doubt, the largest genre with the most voracious readers, and according to a K-lytics report from 2024, it has seen nearly a 100 percent growth in the number of searches it receives on Google even in...
Your Audience May Be Waiting Determining whether an audience is waiting for you is the easiest way to decide how well the market might bear a translation of your books. Consider the first place you might find your readers: your network. This means looking in places where they hang out...
