February 19, 2025
By Amanda Miller
Congratulations! You’ve completed your book—a remarkable achievement that deserves a celebration. But before you think about taking a well-deserved break, it’s crucial to pivot your focus to the marketing of your book.
In this ongoing blog series, we’ll provide genre-specific insights on effectively promoting your book through social media.
The […]
January 9, 2025
By Amanda Miller
Congratulations! You’ve completed your book—a remarkable achievement that deserves a celebration. But before you think about taking a well-deserved break, it’s crucial to pivot your focus to the marketing of your book.
In this ongoing blog series, we’ll provide genre-specific insights on effectively promoting your book through social media.
The mystery […]
December 11, 2024
By Paul Goat Allen
Continuing our mission to highlight some of the all-time best self-published and indie releases, the fourth part of our Unearthing Masterworks series focuses on a much-maligned segment of self-publishing: fantasy!
As someone who has bought self-published releases for a national retailer, and reviewed literally thousands of self-published novels over the […]
November 14, 2024
Congratulations! You’ve completed your book—a remarkable achievement that deserves a celebration. But before you think about taking a well-deserved break, it’s crucial to pivot your focus to the marketing of your book.
In this ongoing blog series, we’ll provide genre-specific insights on effectively promoting your book through social media.
The children’s […]
October 31, 2024
By Paul Goat Allen
After weeks of being inundated by one egregious political commercial after another—one local ad has a candidate claiming his adversary called constituents “ignorant sheep”—I realized it would be fitting to dig up some of the very best indie zombie fiction titles ever released.
And while zombie fiction may not be […]
October 29, 2024
Congratulations! You’ve completed your book—a remarkable achievement that deserves a celebration. But before you think about taking a well-deserved break, it’s crucial to pivot your focus to the marketing of your book.
In this ongoing blog series, we’ll provide genre-specific insights on effectively promoting your book through social media, starting with […]
October 17, 2024
By Paul Goat Allen
As part of BlueInk’s ongoing Unearthing Forgotten Masterworks series, we’ve reached the point in our search through the thousands of titles our reviewers have read and picked the very best indie horror releases. And just to clarify—these aren’t just books that received rave reviews, many are towering masterpieces that have withstood […]
October 3, 2024
By Paul Goat Allen
As a reviewer for many premier websites/publications, including BlueInk Review, I get asked all the time for recommendations. With so many self-published and indie reviews under my belt, I thought it would be a great idea to do a series of blogs that highlight undeniable masterworks in multiple categories: the crème […]
July 25, 2024
By Paul Goat Allen
I’ve worked in the publishing industry for almost 30 years—as an editor, book critic, publicist, and publisher, to name a few positions—and all of those jobs have essentially revolved around discovering and promoting noteworthy titles. That said, I know how monumentally important identifying category is: it’s an invaluable aid to […]
January 10, 2024
By Paul Goat Allen
A new year is the perfect time to set some new goals, or establish better habits that will improve and enrich your life. Writers, in particular, are very much goal-oriented, self-motivated people who thrive on setting lofty goals and striving to achieve them. For those of you hoping to make […]
