A record number of would-be authors are slated to participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, with an estimated 300,000 writers expected to sign up for the challenge. For those unfamiliar with the concept, NaNo—as it’s often called—is a writing challenge, an online community, and a full complement of social media commiserating rolled into … [Read more...] about NaNoWriMo Kicks Off, New Challenges for Authors Ahead
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NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today
NaNoWriMo, the nickname of the more aptly titled National Novel Writing Month, is a month-long challenge every November for the past thirteen years that draws would-be authors numbering in the hundreds of thousands. The goal is simple: to write a 50,000-word novel in thirty days or less. Growing from one individual and a handful of like-minded friends in 1999 to over 250,000 … [Read more...] about NaNoWriMo Kicks Off Today
Ebook of the Week Feature: Steve Umstead
GoodEReader.com’s Indie Author Initiative profiled self-published author Steve Umstead earlier this year with his first title, Gabriel's Redemption, in which Commander Gabriel found himself on a perilous space mission made all the more dangerous by inside politics and a serious case of “don’t-trust-anybody.” For this week’s Ebook of the Week feature, Umstead is giving away … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week Feature: Steve Umstead