by Ragini Werner | 14 May 2025 | Publishing
It can be scary to publish a novel. It seems… so big. There are so many options! Which to choose? Each publishing option has a different impact and different risks as well. In this guide Valerie Fuqua helps you choose the option that will work best for you. Each...
by Ragini Werner | 6 May 2025 | Marketing, News
Call me silly—better yet, naïve—but only a good year after Iguana Books published Becoming Janice did it occur to me that their global supplier—Ingram Distribution Services—also supplies my local market. Duh! And how did I achieve this earth-shattering insight? The...
by Ragini Werner | 22 April 2025 | Real life
Were you one of those little kids who couldn’t wait for it to be your turn to do a show & tell at school? Well, I was, but for me it was more a case of show-off & tell. I just loved the attention. Usually I showed the pictures in the book I was reading and if...
by Ragini Werner | 14 April 2025 | Review, Writing
Were you one of those nerdy birds who loved doing grammar at school? In Form 4 (think St. Trinian’s), I loved parsing lines under the lead of our English mistress, “Creepy” (Mrs Crawley). I’ll never forget how Creepy had us girls chanting “subject-verb-object” while...
by Ragini Werner | 7 April 2025 | Writing
Writing a novel can be daunting. Novels are big. Really big! If you’ve never written one before, it can be easy to lose track of all the information you keep in your head, or worse, saved in multiple locations, both virtual and physical. Here Valerie Fuqua shares how...