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...
by Ragini Werner | 2 March 2025 | Real life, Review
When your publisher is in Canada and you’re in the Netherlands, there’s lots of logical to-ing and fro-ing across the Gulf of Greenland while your book is in production. Back then, did I realize that Becoming Janice would also be trotting over the entire globe?...
by Ragini Werner | 24 February 2025 | Writing
There is *so* much advice out there for writers! When you’re looking for tips on writing, the massive amount available is overwhelming. Whose tips should you follow? How do you tell the junk from genuine wisdom? Try my two favorite sites, both truly helpful resources...