Writing Help and Advice for All
Writing: Where the money is
Originally posted on C h a z z W r i t e s . c o m:
Everybody wonders what the next big thing will be in our expanding industry. In other words, “Where’s the money?” As it relates to writing as an industry, money looks sparse at first glance. I mean, banking, drugs and guns…
…why it matters for Authors to ‘do’ SOSYAL NETWURKIN and a Blog… #TBSU…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…there’s at least a couple of dozen schools of thought on the efficacy or otherwise of Authors indulging the SOSYAL NETWURKIN whirl…this ol’ Jurassic certainly claims no monopoly on knowing what’s right or nor for other scribblers… but I can speak from my own experience… (just try and stop me,…
AUTHORS: 2 cases to consider cutting a paragraph before fighting to make it work
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
Editing is ALWAYS tough, and I honestly think authors learn how to be editors– how to trim down their work–the hard way. You kind of have to. It’s the only way you can learn that kind of a skill: by doing (read “by attempting, failing, and…
Most Valuable Marketing Tools for Self-Published Authors
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
1 Word of Mouth What it can do for you: It can generate sales even when you’ve had a couple of recent unfavorable reviews. What a reader’s buddy tells them about your book carries more weight than what some random stranger writes on your Amazon product page. It doesn’t rely on…
Basic Book Marketing Tips
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
It’s Sunday afternoon, and it’s raining cats and dogs. Which makes this afternoon even more melancholic than Sunday ones traditionally are. So, I decided to get some work done, hoping to forget the sad weather outside (on the upside, the garden badly needed some watering. This is me seeing…
The Critical Book Sales / Marketing Chain
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Sales Formula How many books will you sell? There is a simple formula for this: SALES = (# of views) X (% of buys) For example, if 1000 people view your book every day, but only 0.5% of those people purchase your book, you would sell 5 copies per day. The…
Franz Kafka on the kind of books we should be reading QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord,…
On writing a first chapter
Originally posted on Kathleen McGurl:
The first chapter of a novel is so important – it’s the first thing a reader, editor or agent sees, and if they don’t like it they won’t read on. And these days with Amazon offering the Look Inside feature, potential readers can read the start of your book from…
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