Author Career / Author Entrepreneur
by Beth Barany · Published July 25, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2025
Enjoy my interview with George Meszaros, of Success Harbor, about how to help authors, specifically novelists, think like an entrepreneur. We are actually entrepreneurs, whether or not you’re independently published. Whether or not you’re...
We aren’t going to be able to do all our novel research on the internet. We have to get off our butts, climb out of our office chairs, pack a backpack, and leave the safety of our homes in order to get up-close-and-personal research for the sake of enriching our stories.
book marketing / Book Promotion / Giveaways
by Beth Barany · Published July 22, 2014 · Last modified July 29, 2014
That’s me excited about the giveaways I’m running right now! More about giveaways and how they can help you market and sell your books below. Here at Writer’s Fun Zone and the accompanying newsletter,...
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / Giveaways
by Beth Barany · Published July 22, 2014 · Last modified July 21, 2014
In the spirit of writing conferences — I’ll be in San Antonio near the RWA conference from July 23 to July 26 — and the Christmas in July giveaway I’m doing on my author...
Novelists tend to fall into one of two camps: either they start their books knowing only one character, or a character’s name, and discover the plot and other characters as they write, or they do a 90-page outline with all the turning points and climaxes in place.
Actions often speak louder than words, especially when we are teaching about certain behaviors.
I’m currently teaching an online course on creating compelling characters for novelists via Outreach International, an RWA (Romance Writers of America) chapter. I’m really enjoying teaching this class and so am turning it into a...
I’m all for being focused on your writing, being disciplined, having a plan. And of course having goals. But sometimes you need to take a break. I don’t know about you, but I find...
Beta Readers Requested I’m an author’s coach, helping novelists write, publish, and market their books. To that end, I’m looking for beta readers for one of my client’s novels. THE REQUEST: This is a...
It’s time to take internet security into our own hands, and start to inbox a bit cleverer.
Part of craft is choosing from which perspective, or point of view, you tell your story. Your choices are first, second, or third person (limited or omniscient). Each has its strengths and drawbacks. Well, okay, second person has no strengths, only drawbacks, unless you’re writing how-to manuals. In that case, carry on. Fiction people, you have choices to make.
You probably already know that you can improve your promotional platform and/or sell more books if: * You post questions/comments on other people’s websites or blogs * You get other people talking about you and your...
When editors and critiquers first started reading through my precious manuscripts, I got a lot of “Show, don’t tell,” scrawled across my pages in blood-red ink. And of course, I thought, What the h@#l. What does “Show don’t tell” mean? No one explained it precisely, they all expected me to glean the meaning from the insufficient information they didn’t bother to offer me.
Build Compelling Characters Our job as novelists is to create characters that our readers love. Or love to hate. Or want to be. Or want to jump into bed with. Our characters need to...
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