Writing Help and Advice for All
What Should You Write about? (Topic & Genre)
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Images from Shutterstock WHAT SHOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT? When you decide to write a book, you’re faced with important decisions: Which genre should you choose? Which subgenre? What topic should you write about within that subgenre? What features will your story have? But there are other important considerations that go along…
How to make use of Goodreads as an author, plus a romance novel giveaway for Valentine’s
Helena Fairfax Goodreads Book GiveawayA Way from Heart to Heartby Helena FairfaxGiveaway ends March 13, 2015.See the giveaway details at Goodreads.Enter to win Last weekend saw the online Romance Festival organised by Harper Collins and Harlequin. Like last year’s festival, it was an interesting, fun and useful event, and I picked up a lot of […]
How to get your character right by Ethan Canin – Quotes for Wtiters (and people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
Don’t write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story. ETHAN CANIN photo credit: Steven Pisano via photopin cc
My Book Marketing Secret
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
This is a guest post I wrote for Chris, the Story Reading Ape’s blog, and it describes my marketing strategy – which is really very simple. In fact, it can be summed up as follows: Be real, be fun, be helpful. If you do that, people will buy your…
My Books Aren’t Selling! – 10 Actions You Can Take | Just Publishing
Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:
Here’s some sound advice from Derek My Books Aren’t Selling! – 10 Actions You Can Take | Just Publishing.
Building a fiction writing practice
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
Once again, I used Susannah Conway’s “Unraveling the Year Ahead” to set goals for the upcoming year. Of note, I really like Susannah’s in depth analysis of the year gone by and the high level goal setting for the coming year, but this year, I’ve…
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