Tag Archive | Informative
Lay Or Lie And How Easy It Is For Everyone To Get Them Wrong – by Derek Haines…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Just Publishing Advice: Why do we get lay vs lie so confused all the time? These two verbs cause so many problems, even for proficient English speakers. The cause of the misuse is in the grammar. Isn’t it always? Well, let’s get the technical…
Too Much To Do? How To Re-Focus Your Writing Priorities – by Joanna Penn…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on The Creative Penn: Writing, publishing, book marketing, as well as the day job, family, fitness – real life!!?? Do you have way too much on your writing To Do list and are you feeling overwhelmed and a little crazy? Today I’m talking about something…
What Ian Fleming Did to Make James Bond a Success (Besides Write Terrific Books) – by Ruth Harris…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Anne R. Allen: It’s not just today’s authors who work hard. Consider Ian Fleming. The Man With The Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters is a collection by Fleming’s nephew of the author’s letters to his publisher, editors, colleagues, other writers, fans, readers, and…
Publishing Companies To Avoid And Nasty New Author Scams – by Derek Haines…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Just Publishing Advice: New authors, beware of vanity publishing companies and experts making you offers that are too good to be true Have you received an email or social media message from an agent or publisher offering to publish your book? If you are…
For Indie Publishers: When and Why to Work with a Trade Book Distributor – by Joe Biel…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Jane Friedman site: As a small and new indie publisher, it’s hard to sell even 100 copies of a book in a month, let alone every month. Bookstores will give you the runaround of why they can’t stock your book because of such-and-such ordering…
5 Best Free WordPress Plugins To Help Boost Blog Traffic (for Self-hosted blogs/sites) – by Derek Haines…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Just Publishing Advice: You always want a variety of traffic sources for your blog including Google, Bing, social media, email, direct traffic and referrals. But organic search engine traffic and social media channels are usually the most significant sources for most bloggers, so they are…
How to punctuate dialogue in a novel – by Louise Harnby…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
In this article, we’ll look at the following: How to indicate speech Creating pauses and trail-offs Showing interruptions How to punctuate tagged speech Working with broken-up dialogue Handling vocative expressions Dealing with faltering speech Continue reading HERE
How to find more time to write – by Daphne Gray-Grant…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
on Publication Post: Intro by Daphne: Do you regularly “run out” of time? Psychologist Gay Hendricks has some intriguing ideas that can help writers find more time to write. Continue reading HERE
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