Writing Help and Advice for All
Does your title feed curiosity?
Originally posted on Jean's Writing:
Do you need to change the title? Connecting with readers is our goal as writers. So what comes first? The cover or the title? A cover draws the eye to a book, but a title should tweak a reader’s curiosity enough to open that book. I can’t thank everyone enough for their feedback on…
4 Reasons Why Sprinting is the New Writing
Originally posted on Sacha Black:
I am struggling for time again. I missed my writespiration by a day last week, and I am writing this post far too late on Sunday night. Time is a constant problem for me. How do I balance, full time employment, with being a mum, wife, keeping a house, trying…
Branding your Books into a Series – Episode 4 of 4…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
See Episode 1 HERE. See Episode 2 HERE. See Episode 3 HERE. This final episode deals with themes that link your covers. For this, I have to thank Madelaine Bauman for letting me use her covers. She has yet to publish her first book, but…
Branding your Books into a Series – Episode 3 of 4…
Posted on September 20, 2015 by The Story Reading Ape See Episode 1 HERE. See Episode 2 HERE. Welcome back. Now that you’ve had your introduction to using color to mark your books as a series, I’m sure you see that all over the place. About like noticing a particular make/model of vehicle once you’ve […]
Branding your Books into a Series – Episode 2 of 4…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
See Episode 1 HERE. Welcome back. Today, we’re going to discuss using color to indicate which of your books belong to which series. For this example, I’ll be highlighting Tanya R. Simon’s Vengeance of the Fallen series. Tanya writes thrillers and thriller/horror mashups. This genre…
Branding your Books into a Series – Episode 1 of 4…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
A while back, Chris was kind enough to let me run a multi-part series about making book trailers on a shoe-string budget. In the comments of one of the episodes, someone asked about branding book covers to indicate a series. It’s taken me a while…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 