Blue Room Books Publishing
  • Home
    • About BRB
    • It’s Your Book and Your Vision
    • We invest in new and established writers…
    • The Blue Room Books Tour of Independent Bookstores
  • Staff
    • Publisher: A.K. Durden
    • Editor-in-Chief: Tom Whitfield
  • Our Catalog
    • Blue Room Books Announces the publishing of T.M. Brown’s third in the Shiloh Mystery Series
    • Joey Huffman signed to Blue Room Books
    • Blue Room Books Publishes Lynn Hesse crime novel
    • Mike Shaw’s “The Musician” literary novel is published.
    • W.F. Whitson’s Cold War now available
    • Len Barry delivers a breath of fresh air to the literary world: real honesty.
    • “A Marine and a Journalist walk into a bar.”
    • Durden Kell
    • Jackie B. Yates: “Wartpicker”
    • Alan Ray White: “Rock Around The Block”
    • Stories of Southern Humor and Southern Crime
  • Authors, Case Studies, and More
    • Case Studies: Non-fiction
      • Jedwin Smith: Writing real history
      • Alan White: Just telling what happened
    • Case Studies: Fiction
      • Prose and Cons: Harnessing Creativity
      • W.F. Whitson: Willingness to question and learn
      • Wartpicker: Clear IP Rights
      • The Musician: Seeing the “Long Tail”
      • Darrell Simmons: Sequel for a dying man
      • Z Staehling Signed
      • Pat McKee Signed
    • Best Practices for Writers
      • One: Pronoun Fatigue
      • Two: That, Just, Would, Could, Had, Said
      • Three: Duplicated and Dropped Words
      • Four: Inconsistent Spelling
      • Five: Sounds Like…
      • Six: Being a Slave to Style Manuals
      • Seven: Quotes and Credits and Cities and States and Countries
    • Punctuation is Power
      • Part 1: The History of Punctuation.
      • Part 2: The misuse of punctuation power: Don’t aggravate a reader for no good reason.
      • Part 3: Slave to rules: Write first. Worry later.
      • Part 4: Finding your style: Free your mind and readers will follow.
      • Part 5: Are you in business or in hobby?
    • New Publishing Business Ebook
    • “Yes or no?”
    • Time x Effort / Potential Sales = [Yay or Nay]

Case Studies: Non-fiction