The Hidden Cost of Signing Away Your Rights
by: Jo WildsmithPublished on: 06/03/2026When you write a book, you automatically own the intellectual property. The words, the story, the characters, the ideas – all of it. If you decide that working with a hybrid publisher is the right path for you, the key thing is to go in with your eyes open. You may be licensing or assigning some of those rights to them. Sometimes temporarily. Sometimes indefinitely.
The Accidental Success Story
by: Jo WildsmithPublished on: 24/02/2026When I first started writing I had no intention of my stories ever being great works of art or great works of fiction. It was simply to have some sort of control of something in my life because at the time I felt like everything else was falling apart, and sitting there in front of my computer screen, tapping away, gave me a creative outlet and it gave me something that I was in charge of. I had no idea that it would become something so big.
The Secret Life of My Pen Name
by: Jo WildsmithPublished on: 05/10/2025What would you write if no one ever knew it was you?That’s what my pen name gave me — permission to write without fear. Sometimes the only thing standing between you and your first published book… is your real name.
