Lexi Revellian

LATEST ARTICLES ( 130 )

• Why Fiction Genres Are a Bad Thing

  

  Publishers and bookshop owners love genres. It makes their life so much easier, not just to know which shelf to put a book on, but also how to market it. Enjoye... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How to Format Ebooks for Kindle KF8

  When I realized Ice Diaries' formatting was not changing size/fonts correctly on the Paperwhite Kindle, I did some research and reformatted all my books using... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Clicking Publish on Ice Diaries

  

  I have now clicked Publish, and ICE DIARIES is available to buy (or indeed ignore, according to taste) on Amazon UK and US. It's an extraordinary moment for... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Title, Cover and Blurb - Your Opinion?

  

  I'm nearly ready to publish my latest novel, and I'm doing my usual dithering over the title. Ice Diaries and Snow Globe are the current contenders. So I though... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• No Paid Professional Will Care as Much as You Do

  

  I'm sure you all recognize the quote...Passive Guy posted recently from a US agent's blog a piece entitled Why agents collect your money for you. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Excellent Editing Software

  

  Part of Ice Diaries on Pro Writing AidYesterday I reached the end of the WIP, Ice Diaries. This is not quite as good as it sounds, as the last couple of chapter... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How Many Words a Day Do You Write?

  

  There's a terrifying thread on Kindleboards on this topic calculated to make the average writer feel inadequate. Here are a few sample comments:"In a half hour... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Price of Ebooks and JK Rowling

  

  JK Rowling's first non-Potter novel was published yesterday, and The Casual Vacancy now sits at the top of the ebook and hardback charts in the UK and the US. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fanfiction and Why I Don't Approve

  

  Fanfiction has been in the news lately. Can anyone not know that EL James wrote an erotic series based on Twilight characters Bella and Edward, called Master... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Creating Isn't Normal Reality...

  When I was doing a post-graduate jewellery course at the Royal College of Art, we all cared too much. Most of us spent our time straining to produce the ultimat... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE