Lexi Revellian

LATEST ARTICLES ( 130 )

• Sex in Novels - More! No, Less!

  

  After the inexplicable success of 50 Shades of Grey, some writers are making their romances more sexually explicit, or penning erotica to cater to what it is... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Versions of Reality

  

  The railway behind my/Beth's flat in the snowWhen I write, I imagine the scene as a film, and I know exactly where it takes place. Sometimes I visit the... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Draft2Digital and Leaving KDP Select

  

  When KDP Select started at the end of 2011, I was an early adopter. My books had sold very well on Amazon, while selling hardly any via Smashwords, so the... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• More Rules I Could Do Without

  

  Why are some writers so fond of rules? Why are some indie writers so fond of rules? Isn't one of the main benefits of self-pubbing that you don't have to toe th... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lessons for Big Publishing from Kodak

  

  Whatever happened to Kodak? Recently I treated myself to a new digital camera (a Canon ixus 500 HS, since you ask, and I'm very pleased with it). Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sequels, Like Pregnancy, Are Best Planned...

  

  The quickest way to succeed as an indie author is to write a series in a popular genre. Failing this, write consistently in one genre. Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Could Big Publishing Put up a Website to Compete with Amazon's?

  Someone on KBoards started a thread about whether readers would flee to the Big Six (actually the Big Five now we have Random Penguin) for guidance as to what t... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Agents' U-turn on Self Publishing

  

  I'm sure we all remember that expression 'tsunami of crap' with reference to self-published books. Not sure where it originated, but the expression was bandied... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• AUTHARIUM Update

  I've had an email from Simon Mayott, co-founder and CEO of Autharium, letting me know about major changes made to the contracts offered to writers who publish... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fairy Dust

  

  I've spent the past two and a half years trying to work out what makes one book sell and not another, and ...*SPOILER ALERT*... I can, with confidence,... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Autharium

  NOTE: Since writing this post, Autharium has amended its terms. See my post here.* * * * * Each day there seems to be a new shark circling eager newbie... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Don't Use Times New Roman on Your Book Cover - Ever

  

  Covers are probably THE most important selling tool for your book, because we are all more influenced by presentation than we think. Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Crisps and Chips - UK and US English

  

  Yesterday evening I was delighted to have a Skype discussion with a book club in Defiance, Ohio, (how cool a name is that for a town?) who were reading Remix. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Conduct Becoming a Writer

  

  Once upon a time authors were mysterious beings, recognizable to their readers only by a black and white photograph on the inside flap of a hardback cover, or... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Appeal of Post-apocalyptic Fiction

  

  Having recently published Ice Diaries, which tells the story of a small group of survivors in a 2018 London under twenty metres of snow, I got to wondering abou... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• ICE DIARIES ~ the Paperback

  

  Yesterday the first paperbacks of Ice Diaries arrived. Always an anxious moment, opening the package; I'd got the margins wrong on the proof copy, which meant... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Persistence

  

  2012 has been a good year for me. My novels have been selling steadily, if not in the huge quantities they did in 2010/11, bringing my total ebook sales to... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Swoon - You May When You Read the Contract

  SW♥♥N will be launched next spring by MacMillan Children's Publishing. It sounds a bit like a YA version of Authonomy; writers will load their unpublished... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Are Publishers Missing a Trick?

  

  Steven Pressfield wrote a fascinating article going into the financial details of two recent book deals; EL James's, which has received major publicity, and Hug... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Problem with Animals and Pets in Novels...

  

  I've just finished reading Hollowland by Amanda Hocking. I felt I owed it to such a successful indie, a self-made millionaire by the age of twenty-eight, to... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE