Writing and Publishing Writer’s Digest: 6 Tips to Writing a Bestselling YA Series GalleyCat: Toni Morrison On Failure Epic Reads: The 18 Most Beautiful YA Endpapers in the World The Book Designer: What the Art of Storytelling Can Teach Us about Marketing Tech Crunch: Amazon’s ‘Write On’ Crowd-Publishing Platform Opens To All “The Amazon platform…
Writing and Publishing Mythic Scribes: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Descriptions – Part 1 GalleyCat: Children’s Books Authors Protest Against Assigning Genders to Books “Let’s be clear: I do not talk about ‘girl’ stuff. I do not talk about body parts. I do not do a ‘Your Menstrual Cycle and You!’ presentation. I talk about…
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ Horror International Business Times: Oscar Genre Bias: Why Sci-Fi, Foreign Films And Horror Movies Never Get Best Picture Nominations Tor.com: Gritty Power/Rangers Fan Film is a Wonderfully Dark Reboot Tor.com: Oh No, She Didn’t: The Strong Female Character, Deconstructed There’s been a lot of talk lately in the science fiction and fantasy community about…
Book’s don’t sell themselves. A nice cover isn’t enough. The description needs to be on point. Please never, ever say, “This story is about.” Do not go on any social media and say, “I wrote a book and it’s about…” That’s boring. It screams amateur. Some people can get away with it. My advice is…
Bublish is what you make it. I talked about a book marketing site in the post Bublish Case Study. My free trial ended a couple of days ago. To recap, Bublish lets you publish excerpts of your work with Author Insights (bubbles) attached. You can share these bubbles on Twitter and Facebook. The book/bubbles are…
It’s a great time to be a writer. It’s also kind of a pain. Authors, no matter which route you take, have to be authorpreneurs. Fortunately, book promotion is like 90% digital. Only big name authors get print ads. New companies are creating ways to promote books. Because they want indie/hybrid authors to use them,…
You have a month long promotion for your book. How do you share it across social media? After awhile, people are gonna get tired of seeing your book cover. I’ve seen some creative ways of sharing a cover on Instagram, but those are for print books. This is where image quotes come in. They give…
I came across a thought-provoking post through Google+. Author, Anne Allen, said we shouldn’t stress about reviews because word-of-mouth is all that matters. Most readers don’t pay attention to reviews. We, as authors, put too much importance on them. She’s talking about reviews on Goodreads, Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Not book blogs. “There was…
I’m attracted to orange more during October. Doesn’t happen any other time. Whenever I see that Halloween color, I make a bee-line for it or I, at least, give it a second or third look. How can authors take advantage of that? I mentioned in the post When To Release a Book, that you don’t…
Sometimes a book needs a makeover. It’s easy to change a cover and add some bonus content for ebooks. With Amazon, the update goes live in a couple a hours. This month, I’m releasing the novella Shadows under the Light (working title) Part 2 of Visible Through Darkness. The cover for the first book needs a fresh…
