What a designer needs to know in order to design your book cover. The designer you select will probably have a questionnaire created to elicit your input. W...

There’s lots of advice out there on how to create a book cover for author’s considering self-publishing. I’m attempting to contribute to the topic from my pe...

Why?  Because I have no control over what a reader might say.  Whether I live or die, so to speak, is out of my control. But you ask – “Wait a minute, what a...

— Marshal Zeringue  Featured at Writers Read: John Clarkson, author of Bronx Requiem. Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Clarkson's lates...

—Marshal Zeringue CAMPAIGN FOR THE AMERICAN READER. Clarkson applied the Page 69 Test to his latest novel, Bronx Requiem, and reported the following: This...

Last week I did a reading of my latest novel, Among Thieves, at the wonderful BookCourt in Brooklyn. After the reading, we had a Q & A session. One of the ...

These days it seems that more than ever, people want nothing less than a full measure of success, with all the wealth and fame that implies. In my small fora...