October 25, 2026
A Halloween Evening Without Another Screen
There is something appealing about spending Halloween evening with a book instead of searching through films for an…
October 25, 2026
Halloween Without Horror: A Night for Fantasy Readers
Halloween can be a good excuse to spend an evening with fantasy, even for someone who has very…
October 25, 2026
Rain Against the Window: The Atmosphere of an Autumn Reading Night
Rain is one of the first details I imagine when I think about an autumn reading night. The…
October 25, 2026
Why Old Libraries Feel Like the Perfect Halloween Setting
An old library is one of the first places I picture when I think about a quiet Halloween…
October 25, 2026
When the House Goes Quiet: Why Stories Feel Different at Night
A story can feel different to me when I imagine reading it in a quiet house at night.…
October 25, 2026
Cozy or Creepy? Two Ways to Spend Halloween Indoors
I can understand two very different moods for a Halloween evening at home. Sometimes I want warmth, a…
October 25, 2026
A Halloween Reading Night for Two
A reading night for two sounds like a good Halloween plan to me because it leaves room for…
October 25, 2026
What Makes an Ordinary Room Feel Haunted After Dark?
An ordinary room can become surprisingly unfamiliar after dark. During the day, I can see its edges, its…
October 25, 2026
How to Create a Gothic Reading Corner for Halloween
When I imagine a gothic reading corner, I think about somewhere I would genuinely want to spend an…
October 25, 2026
A Quiet Halloween at Home: Books, Rain, and Something Sweet
There is a version of Halloween I like that involves very little preparation. A comfortable room, something good…
October 20, 2026
Do Self-Published Authors Need an ISBN?
One of the first things new authors encounter when preparing a book for publication is the ISBN. It…
October 20, 2026
Can You Copyright a Book Title? What Authors Need to Know
Choosing the right book title can be surprisingly difficult. A title needs to fit the story, appeal to…
October 20, 2026
What Authors Should Check Before Signing a Publishing Contract
Finishing a manuscript can take months or years, so receiving an offer from a publisher is understandably exciting.…
October 20, 2026
Who Owns a Book Cover After You Pay a Designer?
A book cover is one of the first things a potential reader notices. Before somebody reads the description…
October 20, 2026
Can Authors Legally Publish Under a Pen Name?
There are plenty of reasons why an author might prefer publishing under a different name. Some want privacy,…
October 9, 2026
Why I Prefer Building an Audience I Can Reach Directly
One thing I have never liked about social media is that having followers does not necessarily mean being…
October 9, 2026
How I Use Search Console to See What Google Is Actually Finding
When I first started using Google Search Console, it looked like another technical dashboard full of graphs, statuses…
October 9, 2026
Why Website Speed Matters More as an Author Site Grows
Website speed is easy to ignore when a site contains almost nothing. A homepage, an About page, a…
October 9, 2026
Should Authors Write Short Blog Posts or Long Articles?
There is a strange amount of advice online about the exact number of words a blog post should…
October 9, 2026
What I Learned After Publishing More Than 30 Articles on My Author Website
When I first started publishing articles on my author website, thirty posts sounded like a fairly large number.…
October 9, 2026
Internal Linking for Authors: Why I Started Connecting My Articles
Internal linking did not feel particularly important when my blog contained only a few posts. There were not…
October 9, 2026
How Long Does It Take Google to Index a New Blog Post?
One of the first things I learned from publishing regularly is that pressing Publish and appearing in Google…
October 9, 2026
What I Am Trying to Build With M.V. Mitic and Valentine Kingdom
When I started writing The Eternal Prince, I was primarily thinking about the story. I was not sitting…
October 9, 2026
Why Evergreen Articles Make More Sense to Me Than Daily Social Media
Authors are constantly told that they need to stay active on social media. Post today, reply to comments,…
October 9, 2026
Can One Author Website Become a Full Publishing Business?
When people hear “author website,” they often imagine something fairly simple: an author photo, biography, list of books…
October 9, 2026
How I Think About Pricing a Digital Book Sold Directly
Pricing a digital book sounds simple until the book is being sold directly and all of the surrounding…
October 9, 2026
Should Authors Offer Free Chapters Before Selling a Book?
I like the idea of letting somebody experience a story before asking them to buy the complete book.…
October 8, 2026
How Often Should an Author Publish Blog Posts?
There are many recommendations about how often someone should publish a blog post. Personally, I do not think…
October 8, 2026
How to Choose Blog Topics That Keep Bringing Traffic
Choosing article ideas is easy when a website is new because almost everything still needs to be written.…
October 8, 2026
How Authors Can Turn Website Visitors Into Readers
Getting traffic to an author website is useful, but traffic by itself is not really the goal. Someone…
October 8, 2026
Which Website Analytics Actually Matter for Authors?
Website analytics can become overwhelming very quickly. There are visitors, sessions, engagement, impressions, clicks, countries, devices, conversions and…
October 8, 2026
Pinterest for Authors: Can Blog Posts Bring Long-Term Traffic?
I originally treated Pinterest like another social platform where I could share images from my website. After using…
October 8, 2026
SEO for Authors: How Readers Can Find Your Website Through Google
SEO looked much more complicated to me before I actually started watching my own website appear in Google.…
October 1, 2026
LLC vs Sole Proprietor for Authors and Creators
A book may begin as a personal creative project, but once it starts generating revenue the business side…
October 1, 2026
Payment Processing for Digital Products: What Authors Should Know
Selling a digital product looks extremely simple from the customer side. They choose the product, pay and receive…
October 1, 2026
Best Website Hosting Setup for an Author Business
An author website can start very small, but that does not mean the hosting should be treated as…
September 30, 2026
Join the M.V. Mitic Newsletter for New Updates
I have been adding more parts to the website, improving the reader and publishing new articles, and obviously…
September 30, 2026
New Reading Styles Are Available in the Valentine Kingdom Reader
Reading on a screen should not feel uncomfortable simply because a website decided there is only one correct…
September 30, 2026
The Story Is Now Available in More Than 20 Languages
Valentine Kingdom was never meant to stay limited to one country or one language. One of the updates…
September 29, 2026
The World Behind The Eternal Prince
When I started writing The Eternal Prince, I never really thought about Valentine Kingdom as a place created…
September 29, 2026
Creating a Kingdom That Exists Only in Imagination
One of the things I enjoy most about Valentine Kingdom is that it does not have to follow…
September 29, 2026
How Dreams Became Part of Valentine Kingdom
A lot of ideas for Valentine Kingdom came from normal imagination, things I experienced, thoughts I had or…
September 28, 2026
Do Authors Really Need Their Own Website?
Authors can publish books without having their own website. There are bookstores, social media platforms and plenty of…
September 28, 2026
Why a Domain Name Matters for an Author Brand
A domain name seems like a very small part of building an author brand. You buy it, connect…
September 28, 2026
What Makes an Author Website Look Professional?
I do not think an author website needs to look expensive to look professional. Actually, I think websites…
September 28, 2026
How to Build an Email List as an Author Without Social Media
Authors are constantly told that they need to be everywhere online. Post every day, make videos, upload short…
September 28, 2026
Should Authors Sell Books Directly or Use Amazon?
I do not really understand why this is sometimes treated like an either-or decision. Amazon gives authors access…
September 28, 2026
How Much Does It Cost to Build an Author Website?
Building an author website can be cheap, expensive, or somewhere in the middle. The website itself is usually…
September 24, 2026
Free Chapters from The Eternal Prince
Read the opening chapters of The Eternal Prince for free inside the Valentine Kingdom Library. If you are…
September 21, 2026
A Season of Change: Autumn and Alexander’s Beginning
Alexander does not begin The Eternal Prince as the person he will eventually become. That matters to me.…
September 21, 2026
Why I Chose Autumn for the Beginning of The Eternal Prince
When I imagined the beginning of The Eternal Prince, I never really pictured Alexander starting his journey beneath…
September 21, 2026
Autumn in Valentine Kingdom
Every story begins somewhere. For The Eternal Prince, that beginning happens in autumn. It was not something I…
September 21, 2026
Google Ads for Authors: How I Think They Should Be Used
Google Ads can look complicated at first. Search campaigns, display ads, YouTube, audiences, keywords, conversions, remarketing, different bidding…
September 21, 2026
Trademark vs Copyright for Authors: Protecting a Book, Series and Brand
When I started thinking seriously about books as something larger than a single release, protection became much more…
September 21, 2026
How to Build an Author Website: Hosting, CDN, Ecommerce and Security
An author website can be very simple on the surface. A homepage, a few articles, a place to…
September 17, 2026
Valentine Kingdom Is Now Online
Valentine Kingdom now has a home online. Until now, most of the project has existed behind the scenes…
September 17, 2026
Introducing the Valentine Kingdom Digital Library
When I started building Valentine Kingdom online, I did not want the books to feel like files scattered…
September 17, 2026
The Valentine Kingdom App and Reading Experience
Valentine Kingdom was never meant to exist only as a book sitting on a shelf. As the world…
September 9, 2026
Inside the World of Valentine Kingdom
Valentine Kingdom is built around mystery, discovery, power, love, and the sense that the world is always larger…
September 9, 2026
The Eternal Prince — Enter the First Story of Valentine Kingdom
The Eternal Prince is the first story set within Valentine Kingdom and the beginning of Alexander’s journey into…
September 9, 2026
Welcome to Valentine Kingdom
Welcome to Valentine Kingdom — a world of old kingdoms, hidden bloodlines, dangerous power, love, war, and mysteries…
