NAIMA HAVILAND

Register for a workshop on the basics of self-publishing and marketing with Amazon's Kindle Create app and Kindle Direct Publishing platform

Looking for something to do in Erie this Saturday? The inside look at this festival shows a stage lineup of diverse performances: music,...

Author and poet Claire Buss talks with me about my cross-genre fiction, my latest novel, and the most notable cake of my life on her blog...

Naima Haviland's novel, The Name I Chose, won Silver and 5-star Highly Recommended Book awards for 2022.

I decided to play with a basic font in Illustrator to achieve a title font similar to that used for The Art of Steampunk.

I'm posting today to relate my experience designing blur effects and a transparency mask to add emphasis to book cover text.

Observing elements of design that add oomph to a book cover design.

" ...what we have here is an excellent screenplay for an equally excellent film. All the necessary component parts are present: romance...

Vote for The Name I Chose in the All Authors August Book Cover Contest!

Quick detour to Dario Villirilli's article on 2022 book cover design trends.

writer & editor Susan Gottfried put me on the spot with her famous West of Mars 1-question interview. My answer may surprise you!

Naima Haviland talks about inspiration in writing and her alternative historical novel, The Name I Chose on Alana Lorens' blog.

I peruse published book in my genres to see what visual trends are current in book cover designs. Lately, I've noticed depth.

I share two favorite cover design ideas and the description of my upcoming novel, The Name I Chose.

Darkness moves beneath the surface of a tranquil lakefront community in this vacation horror story.

Coming soon: The Surface, a vacation horror story. Which of these cover design ideas would you choose?

livSOUTH photojournalist Phillip Makselon and I talk about what it's like to be a Southern Writer, the writing process, and creative...

Taking my day job freelance, oh yeah ... I narrate web-based training at my day job, and I thought I could start a freelance side hustle...

In which I rip Charlotte Lamb a new one, and then praise her. So, I'm reading a Harlequin romance I bought at Waterfront Mission thrift...

Browse through the past twists and turns of my brain. My intense hatred for WordPress prompted my switch to Wix, but that doesn't mean...