Rob Parnell's Writing Academy Blog

Dear Fellow Writer, Great to talk to you again. I hope your life is full of interest and purpose! Working hard at the moment to get the final kick-ass version of  Purge  up before Monday - that's the deadline Amazon has given me: 10 days before the actual release date. Sometimes it's daunting working to deadlines, but they're often necessary to make you complete your works at all. Looking forward to finally getting  Purge  out there. I truly believe it's a great novel. Keep writing!   Rob@easywaytowrite.com Creating Your Author Brand It doesn't take a genius to work out that a successful author's name is his or her most powerful asset.  You'll no doubt have noticed that on paperbacks, the more successful an author becomes, the larger their name is printed, when compared to the title of the book. This is no accident or design fluke. It's deliberate.   Like it or not, your name is, or will become, your brand. When you'r...

Dear Fellow Writer, We took a short holiday recently - which is why there's been no newsletter for the past couple of weeks. We deliberately chose a place that had no Internet access! Nice to get away to plot a new book or three and recharge our batteries. Lovely. A friend and I released a music CD this week, along with a short video. The CD is 75 minutes of beautiful guided meditation designed to heal you emotionally and even physically. We're getting great feedback. And it's available on  Amazon Music   here and now!   Keep writing! Rob@easywaytowrite.com Finding Your Unique Genre Finding your own successful writing genre is about maintaining a delicate balance between following your heart, listening to your intuition, and actively responding to the marketplace.  What kind of writer are you? Are you primarily a fiction author? If so, of what? Novels, short stories, flash fiction, screenplays? And in which genre? Romance, thrillers, ho...