Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

When I first decided to transfer all of my courses from my Easy Way To Write website to the digital marketplace, I did a lot of research on e-book platforms before deciding to focus all of my efforts on Amazon Kindle . I may well have been hasty in my decision-making but here are my findings: iStore is too focused on promoting A-list authors and traditionally-published books to be of much use to the independent author. Plus, I’ve never much liked Apple’s insistence on incompatibility with the rest of humanity. Kobo seems to have a tacky feel to it. Many of the books’ covers look decidedly self-published and I didn’t want to associate my work with them. Google have so many conditions attached to how and why you should publish with them, not least implying that the books you publish won’t belong to you anymore, that working with them just didn’t feel right. Nook seems to me to be too small a marketplace when the Kindle is by the far the e-reader of choice. Ther...

Dear Fellow Writer, This week I want to share an interview I did the other day with a great guy called Nick Vulich. He's passionate about helping writers sell their work and has kindly taken an interest in my books recently. I'll let the interview speak for itself! Interview with Author Rob Parnell   Today I’m talking with Rob Parnell. Rob writes thrillers with a supernatural edge. When he isn’t doing that, he’s writing books in his Easy Way to Write series. His latest book is The Writer and the Hero’s Journey. Both you and your wife are writers, does that create a bit of tension or competition between the two of you? Do you hide your work away from each other, or do you share it as you are writing? Rob: I guess Robyn and I are just soul mates. We were meant to be. We’ve never felt any rivalry. We edit and proof each other’s work. We brainstorm story ideas and encourage each other. Fiction wise we have different directions. Robyn’s primarily a children’s writer and I te...