BRYAN W. ALASPA

True crime is a genre I have loved to read for a long time. I stumbled across a dog-eared copy of Helter Skelter and was captivated. I have written collection of true crime stories for various publishers, but also published a few true crime books about specific incidents. I returned to my love of true crime today with the publication of Hope: The Story of the St. Louis Jane Doe, which is available exclusively for Kindle. This is a case which has haunted me since I read about

Over the years I have gotten to know a lot of indie authors who are like me. They either self-publish their books or work with publishers that are small presses. What this means for authors is that they have to do a lot, if not all, of the marketing themselves. When I have asked them what they have found to be most effective in terms of marketing I get told: 1. Email marketing - every author tells me that cultivating an email list and sending out a regular newsletter is the b

It's one of the questions that you get asked when you tell someone that you are a writer and that you write books, a lot more often than you might think. The conversation goes something like this: PERSON: So, what do you do? ME: Oh, I'm a writer. PERSON: Oh, what do you write? ME: Well, I write for a company. Website content and blog, but I also write books. PERSON (really interested now): Really? What kind of books? ME: All kinds. Horror, suspense, thrillers, mystery and det