Announcing Page Fight!: a fast-paced game where books compete for reader love and authors win
Today I am happy to announce the beta release of an awesome game that lets readers help authors be more awesome, while having fun and keeping score.
Category Archives: Tools
The paradox of walking while you write: be creative or solve problems? Choose one.
There has been a lot of attention in the media over the last year or two about a particular research study that seems to show that our creativity goes up when we are walking. But that result completely contradicts my own own experience, so I thought I’d dig into the science. It turns out that we have to be careful with our definitions.
TREWGrip: The keyboard that has changed my writing life
Those who follow my ImmerseOrDie reviews will know that I spend a good deal of time each day on a treadmill, reading ebooks and writing reports about why they did…
Anatomy of a Book Cover
Designing book covers is an exercise in optimization. There are so many different needs to be served, and they can sometimes be in opposition to each other. Does it accurately…
51 things that break reader immersion, with examples
The ImmerseOrDie Report began in June of 2014, and since then, I’ve put 204 books to my simple test. Every morning, I get on my treadmill, open a new indie…
