• A Day in the Life of a Xulon Press Editor

    I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked, “You’re an editor? What do you do all day?!” The misconceptions are many! Bottom line, we’re more talented than just humble comma-movers, more empathetic than red-pen wielding ice queens, and much more normal than the seemingly flawless, type-A perfectionist in the movies.  Want proof? Here’s a peek inside a day in the life of a Xulon Press editor: 8:42 a.m. I arrive 12 minutes late (I can’t figure out why for the life of me), lugging my laptop, which I took home the night before to finish reviewing a novel.…

  • Xulon Press Successful Author Spotlight: Elizabeth Chalker

    Xulon Press author Elizabeth Chalker is our featured author profiled in today’s Successful Author Spotlight.  She is a psychologist who specialized in working with at-risk youth until her body was attacked with Mold/Biotoxin disease, along with Lyme Disease. These diseases have adversely affected Elizabeth’s life and caused her intense pain and placed her in extremely difficult living conditions, all of which can be viewed on the website www.helpelizabeth.net which speaks in frank detail about the life our featured author endures on a daily basis. Her book “Hanging on by the Scratch Marks my Nails Left Behind (Raw Faith)” shares her…

  • Ask the Editor: How Do I Choose A Title for My Book?

    So you’ve selected the perfect topic for your book and are ready to get started. You’re probably thinking that your next step should be to write the title, correct? After all, it’s easier to write five words than five chapters! How do you sum up your literary masterpiece in a few short words? Have no fear: the second article in our new “Ask the Editor” series is here to help! Titling a book can be exciting, in the same way a proud new parent is excited when selecting the nomenclature for their firstborn child, but also exasperatingly daunting because unlike…

  • Meet the Team: Xulon Press Employee Mike Funk

    There’s so much to know about Xulon Press and if you’re reading this blog, it’s because you want to know more. Starting with this post, we are going to tell you more about ourselves so we can all become an even greater family. Readers, authors and everyone else: meet Mike Funk. He works in the Special Projects Department as a Web Developer and has now been with Xulon Press for just over two years. If you come to our offices and meet him in his spiffy button-ups, khakis and dress shoes you’d never guess… He runs to work barefoot! Perhaps…