Writing Help and Advice for All
Authors! Your Cover Font Is Killing Your Book
Originally posted on Tara Sparling writes:
Think this looks amateur? You’d be right. I did it in Paint, just messing about for a jokey post earlier this year (click pic for link) Whilst most of us will judge a book by its cover, I very often judge a book cover by its font. This might sound odd…
Author advice from YA writer Dolores Beagle
Originally posted on The Opening Sentence:
The title of her first novel is repulsive, but then it is a horror story. YA author Dolores Beagle is all set to enter the dog eat dog world of self-publishing with her first novel Tapeworm. – Do you follow the advice you read on the internet? There’s really…
Twitter tip for WordPress users
Originally posted on Suffolk Scribblings:
image source: twitter.com One of the great things about the WordPress platform for blogging is the sharing facility. These little buttons at the bottom of each post allow people who have liked what you’ve written to share it across many different social media platforms. Like many other bloggers I use…
Writing Tips: Creating Believable Characters
Originally posted on ronovanwrites:
Here is Part 4 of the Character series I’ve been doing. We’ve had: Creating Character Names What to Avoid when Creating Character Giving Your Characters Their Character ? Now . . . let’s Make Believe (able) Characters. ? ? #1 Stay within Character Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird was…
Laugh Riot: The Rocking Self-publishing Podcast
Originally posted on C h a z z W r i t e s . c o m:
I’m on Episode #60 of the Rocking Self-publishing Podcast with host Simon Whistler! Hoo-freakin’-HA! We talk about having fun with book marketing. In fact, the whole interview was really fun. I laughed a lot. Simon edited out all the…
WOW! Kindle Unlimited Paid $1.81 in July, 2014 (Updated)
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Kindle Unlimited KDP Select historically paid approximately $2 per Amazon Prime borrow. Kindle Unlimited allows customers to download multiple books, whereas Amazon Prime used to allow only one borrow per customer. Also, Kindle Unlimited readers don’t need to read their books on a Kindle device. So there was much concern that…
Twice as Nice! Kindle now has Preorders, too!
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Kindle Preorders! On the same day that Kindle Unlimited downloads are reported to pay $1.81, we discovered that Kindle has enabled preorders for e-books. Here is the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) help page on this: https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A3P7F81795P0RA&ref_=kdp_EB_PREORDER_phl. Here is how to do it: Log into KDP. Go to your Bookshelf. Add a…
The Best Book Marketing Strategies
I was following the other day a conversation on the best book marketing strategies on LinkedIn. Authors Trish LeSageand Simon Denman, among others, shared some valuable insight, which I think interests us all. To read the entire blog click on the link below: http://nicholasrossis.me/2014/07/24/the-best-book-marketing-strategies/
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