“You’re not a real writer unless…” How many times have you seen something like on your social media? Because, if your internet experience is anything like mine, it’s damn near everywhere. Writers trying to add criteria to the process, saying that if you don’t complete task X, Y, or Z, you don’t get to call …
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Things to Ask Your Beta Readers Part 2 – Analysis
Welcome back to our ongoing series about things to ask your Beta readers. Check out last week’s post, questions about characterization. This week, we delve into the nuts and bolts of your book - the plot, the conflicts, and the structure. I’m focusing on this in order of what is most essential for a story. …
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Never, Ever, Pay Someone to Publish Your Book
There are a lot of traps and pitfalls in the self-publishing world. Poor covers. Bad editing. Publishing first drafts as final products. Most of those mistakes are made due to inexperience and are learning experiences that don’t really hurt the author that makes them. Books that fall prey to these traps generally don’t get any …
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Reblog: Indie Book Month — Promote Your Books — charles french words reading and writing
(https://pixabay.com) On Twitter, there is a movement called #IndieApril, so I thought it was a good idea to import to WordPress. Independent writers are the growing force in publishing, so please take this opportunity to publicize and promote your work! I want to offer an opportunity for all writers who follow this blog to share […] …
What’s it Cost to Publish? A Breakdown of Expenses
If you do a quick Google search for ways to make money from home, one thing that will often come up is “write an ebook.” Technically it is correct. Writing an ebook is a way you can earn money. However, what those articles often ignore is that that writing a book is an expensive process, …
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Pasta Sauce and Books: Should you Write to Market?
The other night, I was talking to a few other authors in a discord channel we share. Someone linked this reddit post titled “How to make money ePublishing (without a bestseller)”. It had some really good advice in it, but that wasn’t what we talked about - we talked about one particular piece of advice …
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3 Things You Should Try for Indiecember
If you haven’t heard of it yet, Indiecember is a challenge created by twitter user @_megan_tennant. As a sort of NaNo but for reading, Indiecember is a challenge to read more Indie books over the course of December. It’s a great way to cool down and give your wrists a break after NaNo, and it’s …
