by Ragini Werner | 5 September 2025 | Review
This wonderful new review has just landed in my inbox. “After reading Ragini Werner’s Revealing Philippa, I enjoyed her second novel even more. Becoming Janice made me feel Janice’s connection to the world she lives and works in, her loneliness, the...
by Ragini Werner | 26 May 2025 | Marketing
Question: What’s black & white and read all over Canada? Answer: Chapters 1–79 of Becoming Janice… fingers crossed! Nice take on an old joke, wouldn’t you agree? But seriously now, because the publisher of Janice, Iguana Books, is located in Toronto, we’ve been...
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...
by Ragini Werner | 24 March 2025 | Marketing
Anne R. Allen and Ruth Harris are publishing industry veterans. On their popular blog for authors, “Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harris” (Writing about writing. Mostly.) they publish articles on how to avoid the pitfalls of this ever-more...
by Ragini Werner | 17 March 2025 | Marketing, Writing
Isn’t it great when a new comment comes in on your lovingly crafted blog? But when you look closer, what a sad disappointment it is to see it’s in Cyrillic, crammed with links, and clearly dumped there by a Russian bot. So, how do you counter the spam bots...
by Ragini Werner | 10 March 2025 | Marketing, Publishing
When MJ Buckman (Em) was thinking of what to put on the cover of her new book, she consulted a graphic designer. When he had several drafts ready, Em asked her social media followers which one they liked best. A while later, Em revealed this result. The professional...