by Judith Briles | Nov 11, 2025 | Author Success, Book Publishing
How to Avoid Being a Limp Author The color purple has been a personal favorite of mine for seven decades … seventy plus years! The visual has always been both calming and exiting to me. It’s meaning conjures up a buffet of adjectives: creativity, wisdom, spirituality,...
by Judith Briles | Sep 30, 2025 | Author Success, Book Publishing, Copyright
Discover 5 Copyright Office Resources You May Not Know Existed Did you know that the U.S. Copyright Office provides a wide range of resources to support creators, educators, and other copyright users, but some of the most valuable tools can fly under the radar? And of...
by Judith Briles | Jul 29, 2025 | Author Success, Book Publishing, Publishing Predators
Don’t Become a Cash Cow for a Predator! Starting down the publishing path takes money—don’t let anyone … anyone … tell you that it doesn’t. Sure, there are ways to create a book and publish it for minimal dollars. And, it usually looks like it. And there are multiple...
by Judith Briles | Jul 8, 2025 | Author Power, Author Success, Book Marketing, Book Publishing
Are You Feeling Author Fatigue Syndrome? Summertime Is Here. It’s midway in the year. For authors, it’s time to take a look back so you can breathe and go forward. How has it been for you? What have you accomplished in your book marketing? How is the writing going for...
by Judith Briles | Jul 1, 2025 | Author Success, Book Publishing, Book Success, self publishing
Publishing Fraud is Alive, Well … and Growing! Is the publishing siren calling to you? Has it already called. Oh-oh … have you ever been caught in something that sounds too good to be true? Did you know that self-publishing has grown into a Bait and...
by Judith Briles | Jun 24, 2025 | Book Publicity, Book Publishing
Who’s in Your Village? … Who Are You Going to Thank? Everyone … That’s Who! Your book is done. It’s time for the back and front matter. What else is there to do? What is the front matter and what is back matter? One of the last items on the book publishing “to do”...
