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Hiring a book designer is one of the most important self-publishing investments you can make. A well-designed book presents you more seriously as an author and will attract more attention on bookstore and ebook shelves. Here are a few simple tips to ensure that you have a final book design that you love, completed on…
I noticed certain industry professionals share their content several times. I don’t mean in one day. I mean over the course of a week. Also, they share other people’s content- articles written sometimes 2 or 3 years ago. You’ve probably heard the term evergreen content. It’s content that doesn’t go out of date. “The term…
Funny how December can turn a beautiful park into something out of a horror movie. I braved the NY cold over the weekend to take some pics. It wasn’t too bad…at the start. I wore gloves, but I couldn’t change my camera setting or zoom with them on. I had to take one off each…
Reading King of Thorns got me thinking about backstory. Like most aspects of writing, there are no hard and fast rules to backstory. How you handle it has more to do with your personal preferences. For those who don’t know, backstory is any information about a character’s past. It’s the things that happened before the events in…
I generally avoid posts titled 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer but this time, I made an exception (don’t know why) and found this awesome poster. It’s so true! When I get some color toner, I may print it out and hang it on my wall. Like this infographic? Get more content marketing tips from Copyblogger.
Yesterday, my Google Alerts feed for “publisher” and “publishing” was saturated with content about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Filing for Bankruptcy. An article in The Huffington Post: Books goes into a bit more detail. They make it all sound so harmless. “Houghton Mifflin said its restructuring has support from the vast majority of its stakeholders, and that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 by…
This poster hangs over my Dry Erase broad. It’s inspirational and funny. Even without the words, the picture says enough. This is one of the things that separates published from unpublished authors. The author of “The Help” was rejected like 50 times. That’s hardcore. No matter what, don’t ever give up.
This wasn’t the post I intended to publish. I wrote one yesterday and hated it but couldn’t figure out why. I sat back and read and reread it- changing words and paragraphs around. But, I still hated it and I still don’t know why. How is it we writers know what works and what doesn’t?…
Writers don’t read we study. We learn the craft by analyzing what’s been done before. I read this often when I was first learning to write but never how do this. I, eventually, learned how to pick a story apart through my literature classes as an undergrad. So, to hopefully save you some confusion, I…
