By Christine Lister For the past thirteen years, I have aspired to be a writer. I am a writer. I can write and write well and have lots of ideas. BUT… Six books published to little or no acclaim, or commercial success, meant that for the past few years, I couldn’t find a publisher even […]
Today, Stephen Robinson and Karen Fischer are well-known and successful authors in their field. Their knowledge of their subject matter, effective writing style, and partnership with Exisle Publishing are a few things they have in common. But the subject matter of their books could not be more different. Stephen Davis is a historian whose four […]
Globally, people are prioritizing their health as they attend physical movement classes, start meditating, and (of course) read books focused on assisting readers’ well-being. On Amazon there are more than 60 thousand books in the Health and Wellness section. It can be tough for your book to stand out, but we’ll go over the basics […]
When you open a book and begin to read, what you are reading is not a first draft. Really, it’s an accumulation of edits, rewrites, and more often than not, the original draft rarely resembles the finished manuscript you bought off the shelf. As writers, how do we tackle the rewriting process? We’ll offer some […]
Story by Greg Beatty Jason held up his tablet. His father admired the image filling the screen. "Oh, that's a beauty! A great picture of a great bird." "Thank you," Jason said. "Too bad it doesn't count for your total." Jason and his dad had a bet. Everyone in their family was always trying to […]
Story by Georgia Cook My mother was a creature of sunlight and glass, spun from pressed sand in a blazing heat. She glittered as she walked, her arms and legs riddled in cracks from the exertion, the fine lines around her mouth sharp with splinters. She never spoke, my mother; my mirror-mother. My fragile, breakable, […]
Story by Elly Sparrow You were still alive when I walked through Rotherhithe Tunnel, long before I knew you’d once done the same. You were too tired by then, lying on your hospital bed, ready for the restful sleep you’d been waiting for for longer than any of us had cared to admit to ourselves. […]
This Exisle Academy competition generated many entries, about 100 more than our previous competitions. FICTION Among the many fiction stories, we were encouraged to embrace our scars, and asked if mindsets are hereditary, and shown that the destructive habits of the dead can be passed down through generations. We were posed the intriguing question of […]
Memoirs, the genre that most wants to be read. As storytellers, we gravitate toward evocative and vulnerable writing that tells us more about the writer and the world we live in. We all have stories, but will every personal story sell? Autobiography vs. Memoir Often writers begin to write a memoir and then the scope […]
Imagine: You are sitting in front of the computer screen with a white, blank page staring back at you. You have the free time to write, but you have no idea what to write. Sound familiar? Well, this post will explore how to find your writing niche, the subject matter you are most knowledgeable about […]
