SIGN UP HERE! In this webinar, we’re going to look at how to target genre for big sales. All too often writers pen a great novel, but despite tremendous effort and utilizing top marketing...
Author Career / inspiration / video / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published April 8, 2016 · Last modified April 6, 2016
In my live #askaWritingCoach chat this week, I chatted with PJ Ferguson, founder of the Be Happy Now Club and author of The Shortcut to Happiness. We discussed setting boundaries, time management tools, scheduling, to-do...
I’ve had several occasions now where I’m talking to an author, and they mention how frustrating it is that this publisher has the rights to their book and, for one reason or another, the publisher refused to give the rights back when the author asked for it. I promptly ask the first question that comes to my mind: “So, do you think you’ll exercise your termination right when the time comes?”
Some writers enjoy the process of rereading and combing through each word, looking for ways to strengthen sentences, remove extraneous detail, sharpen plot and develop characters. But for many it’s pure torture. Editing can feel like it lacks the punch and excitement of the initial writing, too analytical and uncreative.
Author Marketing / book marketing / Book Promotion / video
by Beth Barany · Published March 30, 2016
In my weekly live #askaWritingCoach chat this week I shared 12 book marketing tips and some underlying presuppositions, an overview of many of the topics I’ll cover in my upcoming Branding and Marketing for...
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / video
by Beth Barany · Published March 26, 2016 · Last modified March 25, 2016
In my weekly live #askaWritingCoach chat this week, I interviewed Heather on the foundations of building a creative business — space to create and systems — plus answered your questions and gave away her...
On one of my recent weekly Wednesday live chats (on the 7 keys to author success), a writer asked me how I juggle working on my fiction while working full time. As you may know,...
I participated in Pitch Madness last year on twitter and while preparing I realized I had no idea what genre my book was. Before you begin they give you a list of what genre to put at the end of your tweet so that agents and editors can see if they would even represent your book. There were so many to choose from so I did some research on each of them.
I’ve always been one of those people that learns the hard way, by doing. I’m also one of those people that says “I can do it myself”. This is what led me to my most recent pitfall.
In Get Writing Your Novel News :: August 2016: The next free mini-course “Plan Your Novel” contests open up. :: October 2016: The next live “Plan Your Novel” course opens. (The Homestudy/self-paced/DIY version is...
For all those who have interacted with small humans in the kinder-to-third grade arena, you might be familiar with Flat Stanley (also known in some cases as Flat Lizzy). For those who haven’t had the joy of meeting this illustrious character, a quick introduction.
Word of mouth still sells more books than any other promotional tool out there. If you just state what you write in a way that generates curiosity, then you can get more people engaged...
How many times have we read a book, or a short story, or a terrific blog post and thought to ourselves, “man, this is great. I wish I’d written it.” I do that all the time.
A writer I know recently asked for song ideas to build her writing playlist—the music she’d play while she worked on her latest WIP, a fantasy adventure tale. She wanted songs that would speak to the acts of the book—her heroine on a mission, in trouble, fighting her way out, and resolving her issues. I thought of “I Need a Hero,” sung by Bonnie Tyler, who asks for a street-wise Hercules.
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