Happy Holidays!

It's Winter break here at the Kill Zone. During our 2-week hiatus, we'll be spending time with our families and friends, and celebra...

Be Thankful That You're a Writer

James Scott Bell Twitter.com/jamesscottbell As we close up shop for a couple of weeks here at TKZ, it's the perfect time to reflect on t...

It's High Time We Abandon The Printed Book Once and For all.

John Ramsey Miller I've been thinking about books. Magazines. Newspapers. Sales Brochures. Mail. I have stacks of books, magazines. I ha...

Thank You All

By John Gilstrap I'm taking the occasion of this final Killzone post before our Holiday Hiatus to say some thank-yous. To the readers of...

Perseverance

By Jordan Dane For my last post in 2011 with TKZ, I found a Wall Street Journal article on self-publishing that offered something a little ...

The Amazon Daily Deal

By Joe Moore Today, Amazon has graciously chosen THE GRAIL CONSPIRACY (Midnight Ink, 2005) as their “Daily Deal”. This means that for one...

It's a Wrap!

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne As this is my last blog post for 2011 before we go on winter hiatus (or in my case, summer hiatus!) for a couple ...

10 Reasons Why I Am Self Publishing

James Scott Bell Twitter.com/jamesscottbell We had quite a dust up this week over the self-publishing revolution, beginning with my thought...

My Favorite Books of 2011

It has become a practice at the end of a year to compile a "Best Of" list. That is tough to do, and to call it such is a bit of a ...

Judging a Book by its Cover

by Michelle Gagnon There was an interesting piece in last week's New York Times on the transition back to so-called "gilded covers...

Real-Life Characters

Have you ever met a person who is so interesting that you had to incorporate him into a story? We've just returned from a one week cruis...

Presenting the Author: 24/7

By: Kathleen Pickering   http://www.kathleenpickering.com My life is a three ring circus. No wait. My husband said living with me is like ...

Reasons not to Self-Publish?

By Clare Langley-Hawthorne Last week I read a blog post by Edan Lepucki entitled Reasons not to Self-Publish and it prompted me, yet again...

Literary Agents in the Digital Age

James Scott Bell Twitter.com/jamesscottbell Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark se...