Basic Options Trading: Options Strategies For Beginners by Rocco Pendola is not a get rich quick read.  If you are looking for a book to offer you outrageous guarantees about fast cash and then retiring along the Mediterranean this is not the book for you.  However, if you are looking for a sensible, down-to-earth guide [...]

Now that self-publishing has taken off like the California Gold Rush, the internet – and bookstores – are booming with self-made creations of literary wonder. Because of this, it’s tougher for the readers out there to sift through the mess to find the gems that they will eventually fall in love [...]

Do-it-yourself review site on Facebook

Two nights ago I became addicted to the website www.fiverr.com. If you haven’t heard of fiverr, it’s a website that allows people to offer to do a variety of things for five bucks. There are hundreds of different kinds of things people are willing to do – and at $5 per job, many of them [...]

To have a chance at selling your book on amazon or online, you need reviews. Lots of them. And if you’re like me, you hate pushing all your friends and family to review your work (is it really fair to ask them?) and leave comments. So most authors do this:
1) Search online for book reviews, [...]

I feel I must preface this review by offering full disclosure: Until now, I have never reviewed a work of non-fiction, nor a work which falls into the Spiritual or Self-Help genres. Naturally, what follows in this review is entirely my opinion, and I’ll do my best to cover what I think are its high [...]

One of the reasons I set up this blog was to post about my journey through self-publishing. As adventurous as its been, it’s always good to come across those who want nothing more than to help indie authors get on their feet and propel their works of fiction/non-fiction to new heights.
Today [...]

In the past, I’ve blogged my thoughts about the review process, and I’m at it again. It’s the wonderful experience when publishing a book. Every author, whether self-published or traditional, has a star-filled future from one to five.
After being in the public eye since 2008, I’ve come to one conclusion. The entire review process [...]

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. — T.S. Eliot
Meh! What’s failed? That’s what I want to know. If you are writing and you love what you write and you love the process, then you are not a failed writer. A failed writer to me is the writer who gives up their [...]