3 Xlibris Titles Finalists at INDIEFAB Awards
Xlibris Publishing congratulates its exceptional authors who made it as finalists at Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. The awards are more than just a shiny sticker on the front of a book; they help connect the best indie books to readers eager to discover new stories written by previously unknown authors. Here […] READ MORE |
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Award-Winning Book Emerges 40 Years Later from Tragic Mess – Part 2
Xlibris author Ian Prattis once hit rock bottom, but he used this experience to gift readers with a moving story about depression. Read on to discover more about his novel Redemption, which in a sense has become his own redemption. More about the Xlibris book Callum Mor’s bleak solitude is broken when a family with […] READ MORE |
Keeping Your Writing Short and Sweet
Wordiness grates on the reader’s ears. It is a literary crime that every mindful writer avoids. As a writer, you owe it to your readers to tell your stories as clearly as possible. Here are tips to avoid sentence obesity and keep your writing in shape. Use stronger verbs instead of nouns, but use nouns […] READ MORE |
Award-Winning Book Emerges 40 Years Later from Tragic Mess – Part 1
A melancholy memory turns out to be the catalyst for an almost forgotten yet brilliant Xlibris novel. Author Ian Prattis stumbles upon this overlooked treasure – a story nearly four decades in hiding but remains as relevant as it was first conceived. He recounts here on the Xlibris Blog the bittersweet recollection so surreal he […] READ MORE |
Women Gaining More Power in Self-Publishing
A research by FicShelf, an online community for bibliophiles and writers, showed that more female authors have been doing well in self-publishing. FichShelf discovered that 67% of bestselling authors on popular self-publishing platforms are women compared to 61% of top-selling male authors on Amazon’s top 100 traditionally pubbed books. The results were released on International […] READ MORE |