7 Ways to Turbocharge Your Ebook Marketing
Smart ebook marketing works like a magnet to bridge the gap between readers’ unmet desires and your book’s ability to satisfy those desires. Here are [Read More]
Month: September 2018
20 Things to Consider When Building Fantasy Worlds
by New York Times Bestselling Author Sara Raasch I have crafted two fantasy worlds in my career so far. The first, Primoria in the SNOW [Read More]
Is Social Media Changing How We Write?
by Anne Leigh Parrish We’ve all heard it said that readers have increasingly short attention spans. Spending time with a print medium isn’t as engaging [Read More]
Self-Publishing Is Not A Back-up Publishing Plan
When I finally self-published my book, admittedly, it was the last resort. I had promised myself that if I was unable to sell my book [Read More]
Who Ya Gonna Call? Writing Paranormal and Supernatural Phenomena Realistically and Authentically
Given the popularity and depictions of “paranormal and supernatural phenomena” in movies and TV, one of the world’s foremost scientific experts on writing paranormal and [Read More]
What Starting a Business and Launching a Book Have in Common: It’s All About the Investment
When you’re launching a book, your job is to find readers, engage with readers, write good books, and sell the heck out of said book(s). [Read More]
13 Literary Journals Open to Other Art Forms
Most literary journals publish poetry and fiction. Many also publish creative nonfiction, essays, reviews, and visual art (largely paintings, drawings, and photography). Most do not [Read More]
Where to Write
Written by Geary Smith Several years ago, while vacationing with the family in Key West, Florida, I can remember looking up at the home of [Read More]
How to Never Be a Writing “Failure”
Dealing with rejection doesn’t have to be a discouraging experience. Here, P.S. Hoffman offers five ways to fail smarter and set yourself up for success, [Read More]
9 Useful Character Questionnaires For Writers
Writers want to create characters readers will remember. We want our readers to empathise with them and to be able to think about them as [Read More]
Why Marketing Kills Writers (and What You Should Do Instead)
In today’s world, to be a writer we’re told that writing is not enough, you must market your work and do everything in your power to [Read More]
This is a Truly Bizarre Way to Write a Novel
I’m a tinkerer by temperament. My most frequent nerdy joke with my writing students is that if you sat me down at a computer every [Read More]
Planning To Write Something Today? Tips for Setting Writing Goals that Work
Lynn Dickinson shares tips to help writers honestly examine their writing routines to make the changes necessary to achieve their writing goals. As an assignment, [Read More]
Things I Wish I Knew Before Self-Publishing My Book
Over the course of four years, this poem morphed into a children’s book by the same name that I self-published with my friend and illustrator, [Read More]
These 10 Words Have the Most Definitions in English
Set yourself down and prepare to run through the list of English words that go above and beyond when it comes to different definitions. These [Read More]
Best and Worst Self-Publishing Services Rated by the Alliance of Independent Authors
The Watchdog Desk of The Alliance of Independent Authors monitors the self-publishing industry in two ways. 1. We have a Partner Membership for services which [Read More]
5 Killer Strategies for Having a Thriving Freelance Writing Career
There are millions of wanna-be writers out there who dream of the work-at-home lifestyle, raking in the dollar bills, enjoying mid-day yoga classes, and sipping [Read More]
How To Start Writing: Tips From A First-Time Author
When I started the task of writing The Love Fool, I had no idea how to begin. Sure, I’ve written papers case studies and such while [Read More]
6 Ways to Manipulate Time in Fiction
One of the least analyzed literary devices in literature is time. Time works differently in books. It ceases to be the tyrannical presence that we [Read More]
5 Reasons This Is The Best Time To Be A Creator
I get emails from authors every week asking if they are “too late” to write a book when the world is so crowded with books [Read More]
Fiction University: Practical Advice for Beginning Fiction Writers
First, don’t do it, if that’s how you plan on making a living. Sure, we all hear about the fabulous successes of the J.K. Rowlings [Read More]