by Penny Freeman | Jan 27, 2015 | Publisher's Desk
BY JESSICA SHEN Introducing the Xchyler Publishing Newsletter! We have some exciting news today—Xchyler Publishing will be releasing our first newsletter this Friday, January 30th! Thank you to all the lovely people who came by our booth at Teslsacon to sign up for...
by Penny Freeman | Jan 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
BY JODI L. MILNER, TC PHILLIPS, TIMOTHY VINCENT, ELISE STEPHENS, THAXSON PATTERSON II, SCOTT E. TARBET, F.M. LONGO, GINGER MANN, J.R. POTTER, & DANIELLE SHIPLEY EDITED BY MCKENNA GARDNER Join us as we celebrate the release of THE TOLL OF ANOTHER BELL. Win lots of...
by Penny Freeman | Jan 24, 2015 | Sound-off Saturday, Writing
AUTHORING AS A NOUN BY CANDACE J. THOMAS Someone argued to me that there are no authors and that every author is a plagiarist, grabbing from history or different experiences. She said, “To AUTHOR as a verb is to create something new and there is nothing new in...
by Penny Freeman | Jan 22, 2015 | Editor's Notes, Writing
BY MCKENNA GARDNER Writing Conflict The best conflict in literature stems from genuine human desire and motivation. When you have two primary characters, presumably the hero and the villain, or the hero and the heroine, with opposing outlooks on life, an inevitable...
by Penny Freeman | Jan 21, 2015 | Inside Marketing
BY VEENA KASHYAP Happy New Year! I hope you had a fabulous holiday season. Now that you’ve had some downtime, let’s get back to business, shall we? Last fall, I kicked off a series of posts focusing on the building of an author platform. As you may recall, my...