Michel Sauret – Award-Winning Army Journalist | Independent Author Award-Winning Army Journalist, Independent Author

(Photo credit by thundersaber)   It’s been ten years since I graduated high school. In those ten years, I got married (been married 5+ years now), deployed to Iraq (won the Army Journalist of the Year award), bought a house, ...

One of my goals on this blog is to share my self-publishing mistakes so you don’t repeat them yourself. I’ve already discussed the importance of spending your money wisely with my article on Kirkus Reviews. Another money-waster on the list ...

I don’t care what idioms say, people judge books by their cover. We are attracted to what is visibly appealing and we gravitate toward colorful or bold designs. When I was getting ready to publish Amidst Traffic, I set out ...

A few days ago, “Amidst Traffic” received its first negative, one-star review on Amazon.com The review pretty much went like this…

  Setting up a book signing as an independent author is harder than ever. When I published my first book, Breathing God, through a print-on-demand company called PublishAmerica, I was actually able to set up two book signings at Walden ...