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The Party is Over for Authors – Really?
Originally posted on Savvy Writers & e-Books online:
. . Aaron Shepard Wrote a Blog: The Party is Over. “Amazon has been touted as fostering a thriving culture of self publishing with its level playing field for online sales and its promotion of new reading and publishing technologies, particularly the Kindle. Well, much of that…
10 Ways to Know You’re a Writer
Originally posted on Stories are the Wildest Things:
You’ve wondered, right? You’ve asked yourself this question many times and you’re reading this post to find out, “Am I a writer?” Like a hypochondriac checking out WebMD for signs and symptoms, you scour articles and blog posts for the telltale signs and symptoms that you’ve got…
Tips for Indie Authors: All You Never Wanted to Know about the Dash and a Giveaway
Originally posted on Jennie Sherwin:
? ? In the thirty plus years that I’ve been editing the drafts of other writers, I’ve found the dash in its many forms to be the most misunderstood mark of punctuation. First of all, there is more than one type of dash. Second, each type is used for a…
How Can Kindle Unlimited Improve Your Sales?
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Kindle Unlimited For $9.99 per month, customers can check out up to 10 Kindle e-books from an extensive library of 600,000 titles at Amazon. All books enrolled in KDP Select are participating (plus 100,000 others from mostly small presses). Authors will receive royalties in the form of KDP Select borrows. The…
Emotion and Characterization in Fiction: Fear as a Motivator
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
As authors, one of the greatest factors we have to consider are the things our characters most fear, and whether those fears are more likely to paralyze or motivate them. After all, life is all about facing fears, and if our characters don’t face or at…
Book Marketing: Twitter vs. Facebook
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As you know, there is research being done about pretty much everything nowadays. I recently came across an interesting research by Michelle Bertino on Klout, that studies the reactions on Twitter and Facebook according to different subjects. Nice guy that I am, and since a large part of it has fascinating…
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