Author Marketing / Guest Columnists
by Guest Contributor · Published May 27, 2019 · Last modified May 19, 2019
If you don’t have an author website because you’re happy using social media or your newsletter instead, I would urge you to consider adding an author website to your arsenal of book marketing tools.
This one is about restaurants as the settings for stories. A restaurant can be the location for all sorts of fascinating conflict. I’ll explain.
The experience of reading of The Art of Dramatic Writing helped me to understand what enables plays, books, movies, and teaching to be great and what skills I needed to develop in order to write great stories.
Goals versus Desires – Wanting something is a desire; working to obtain that something is the goal.
What do you do, when the pieces of your story are there, but they just won’t fall into place ? The good news is, you’re probably closer to finishing your story than you think.
My sixth writing guide, How to Write a Page Turner: How to Craft a Story Your Readers Can’t Put Down contains tips to infuse page-turning tension into every aspect of your story or novel and even memoir.
Author Marketing / Book Promotion
by Guest Contributor · Published May 16, 2019 · Last modified May 14, 2019
As I stated in my previous article, I promised to instruct you how to put an Amazon Ad in place. Before I do, here are links I can recommend that can give you more in-depth instructions:
Writers get a lot of advice. They’re told to write what they know or explore new worlds. To grab readers in the first paragraph or do a slow build.
Guest Columnists / Writing Tips
by Guest Contributor · Published May 13, 2019 · Last modified November 28, 2025
Epic rivalries make for memorable stories — the kinds of stories that are worth re-reading so we can immerse ourselves in the emotional intensity of the hero’s multi-layered relationship with the villain.
Congress created an entirely new Copyright Act that took effect in 1978. So what’s the final answer on how long a copyright will last? Here’s the breakdown.
If November was a month-long typing party fueled by coffee and desperation to finally hit a NaNoWriMo deadline and word count (50,000), May is a quilting party of piecing this all together.
Was this you? At seven, did you say, When I grow up I want to write and produce a popular newsletter with over 10,000 contacts that I work to scrub weekly.
First, let’s distinguish first between chefs and cooks. Cooks are people who prepare recipes. Their training includes kitchen cleanliness and sanitation, plus basic food preparation, and the specific requirements of the dishes they make.
Where’s the magic?You’re working hard on your story, day after day. Buckling down, you fill page after page, but it feels like treading water.
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