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HOW TO – Link your Blog Posts to Goodreads & Amazon…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Extract of an article by author Maria Murnane on the CreateSpace Community Site: When it comes to author blogging, there are two questions I hear more than any others: 1. What should I blog about? 2. How can I get people to read my blog?…
Feedback For Fiction | Self-Evaluating Scene Endings and Novel Structure
Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
Self-Evaluating Scene Endings and Novel Structure Imagine sitting on a plane next to a man reading your novel. You watch him read. He gets to the end of a scene and quickly turns the page to the next scene. He does this for hours. You watch the entire time, thrilled…
EDITING 101: 16 – Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others. Courtesy of Adirondack Editing Homonyms, Homographs, and Homophones I had a lot of fun researching today’s post. (Yes, I’m an über-geek, but let’s…
How do you become an editor?
Originally posted on Nail Your Novel:
Rachel Anderson asks: How did you get into editing? Did you start writing first and then take on editing as a natural second, or was it out of necessity since there are more opportunities for editors than writers? Oof, talk about cutting to the quick. It’s certainly tricky to…
10 Things I’ve Learned From Self-Publishing
Originally posted on Ryan Lanz:
? by J.U. Scribe It’s been three years since I self published my first book. It’s definitely been a learning experience marked by relative successes and failures. As I mark the 3rd anniversary since I self-published Before the Legend , here are the top ten things I’ve learned over the course of…
Amazon customers – SCAM WARNING…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
From The Mail Online Amazon customers are warned of a scam email that aims to get their bank card details: Here’s how to stay safe. Thousands of fake emails have been sent to Amazon customers The emails claim that there has been a problem with…
CreateSpace vs. Ingram Sparks: Choosing The Best Printer Service For Your Books
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As you know, most of my books are available in print format as well. I use Createspace for this but have often flirted with the idea of using Ingram Sparks. How can one choose? I recently stumbled on a great post by Giacomo Giammatteo on the Self-publishing advice blog. Giammatteo has posted a…
The Trouble with Series – Guest Post…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
One of the best things to do as an indie author is to write a series. People like reading them, and it makes your author page look much better when you have more than one title to your name. For most of us, writing our…
7 Tips for Naming Your Characters
Originally posted on J. Young-Ju Harris:
Naming characters is an important part of character creation. It determines how your characters will be known moving forward. Some people find this aspect of the character creation phase to be very easy or mostly intuitive. For those of you who don’t, here are some of my suggestions on…
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