March 21 is World Poetry Day
The commemoration may not be as grand as other festivities, but World Poetry Day has been annually observed every 21st of March since 1999. March 21st was officially marked as World Poetry Day by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during its 30th session held in Paris, France in 1999. “Poetry reaffirms […] READ MORE |
Author: Thomas McKinley
Kylie Helps Author Tony Flood Earn Rave Reviews – Part 2
Get to know more about Xlibris author Tony Flood and his acclaimed book Triple Tease on this sequel of his Xlibris guest blog. His other book and more about Triple Tease Flood, who has worked for the Sunday People and Sunday Express and was Controller of Information at Sky Television, says, I am probably best […] READ MORE |
Kylie Helps Author Tony Flood Earn Rave Reviews – Part 1
Nothing peps up an author quite like good reviews for his or her book. They assure that the writer’s hard work is not in vain and that some readers took the time to read the story and found it gripping. For a self-published or jointly published author to gain these accolades is indeed a feat […] READ MORE |
Author Teri Metcalf Bags Best Autobiography Award
To write a compelling autobiography is a feat, as not everyone may be interested in your own life story. The challenge for an author in this genre is to make his or her memoir intriguing enough to deserve a reader’s attention. Xlibris author Teri Metcalf has pulled that off, winning in the autobiography category of […] READ MORE |
10 Badass Women of Literature – Part 2
Get to know more badass women of literature in this second installment of the Xlibris Author Advice. 6. Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) She is best known as one of the pioneer women writers of the female erotica genre. The French-Cuban diarist, whose journals detailed her own erotic adventures, self-published her first book Under a Glass Bell. […] READ MORE |