ManuscriptReport Review: Will This Marketing Analysis Service Help You Sell Your Book?

ManuscriptReport Review: Will This Marketing Analysis Service Help You Sell Your Book?

I have a confession to make: As much as I love writing fiction, I have an almost directly proportional hatred of marketing said writing. I simply have no idea what to do. Or say. Or post . . . You get the picture. So when I learned that ManuscriptReport seeks to make authors’ marketing life a little easier, I was really keen to check it out. In today’s ManuscriptReport review, I’ll share my honest thoughts about this marketing service, and what it’s worth it for authors.

My AI-Assisted Writing Experiment: What Happened (and What I Learned).

My AI-Assisted Writing Experiment: What Happened (and What I Learned).

There’s a growing divide in the writing world right now. On one side, you have authors excited about experimenting with AI. On the other, you have traditional writers who want nothing to do with it. The conversations can get heated fast, and often it feels like there’s no middle ground.

I wanted to know if there was room for compromise. Could AI help with speed while I protected the heart of the story? Could it serve as a tool instead of a replacement?

Inkitt Review: How I Found a Whole New Audience for My Novella

Inkitt Review: How I Found a Whole New Audience for My Novella

Inkitt allows authors to publish stories for free on their site, and if your story connects, it can get picked up by Galatea—Inkitt’s reader app with a much wider (and more mobile-first) audience. Galatea adapts stories into serialized episodes with sound effects, pacing adjustments, and artwork, then promotes them on the app. That’s what happened with my short story, and it’s still wild to see it playing out on a professional platform like that.