Wow – all in all we had 38 participants in the drawing for Beyond the Trail. Thank you all for participating. Unfortunately we have only two e-book copies and two paperbacks to give away. My partner Daniela drew the [...]
To celebrate the publication of Beyond the Trail by Jae we’ll be giving away two copies of the e-book version as well as two copies of the paperback. Anyone can participate in the book giveaway. Just leave a comment [...]
A while ago, we blogged about our visit in Leipzig, the city of books. Our stay in Leipzig was all about literature and publishing. Not only did we spent a great day at the book fair, but we also visited [...]
In our last post on writing tips, we gave general advice on how to write good dialogue. Today, we want to blog about so-called dialogue tags. A dialogue tag is a verb such as “said” or “asked.” The function of a dialogue [...]
If you’re a sucker for romance – like Henriette – you should go and visit the virtual living room over the coming weekend. Here is a message that Henriette asked us to post: Spot-On: The Beauty of Romance, May [...]
During the book fair in March, we—Alison Grey and Jae—visited Leipzig, the largest city in Saxony, Germany. We quickly realized that Leipzig has more to offer than “just” the book fair—especially for people who are interested in literature and history. [...]
Finally, Beyond The Trail by Jae is now also available as paperback. If you loved Backwards to Oregon you’ll love Beyond The Trail. Here is what this books is about: Six short stories that give us glimpses into the [...]
We just wanted to let you all know that Walking the Labyrinth by Lois Cloarec Hart will finfally be available in June. Just one more month to go. The story is edited, the cover already created and right now [...]
Ylva Publishing is happy and proud to announce that Shaylynn Rose has joined our team. Shaylynn is the author of Banshee’s Honor, a wonderful fantasy novel which we will be republishing in 2014. It’s going to be a revised [...]
It’s been a while since we last posted an article about the most common mistakes in manuscripts, but today, we want to talk about a very important part of writing: dialogue. Here are eleven tips for writing good dialogue: [...]