5 Things I’ve Learned from Book Signings By Gail Z. Martin
Since signings are public appearances, they’re unpredictable. You never know what’s going to happen.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Trippy Trips: A Game of Keeping Your Readers Fed by Wyatt Bessing
How often have you journeyed off to some exotic destination and brought along your notebook, expecting to record your observations in prose so eloquent and poetic that it would forever change the perceptions and very lives of your readers? Or you at least assumed that the wonder you felt would marginally translate itself to the page, all that majesty entering your words through osmosis?
Please Join My Fiction Author Email List and Enter To Win A Gift Certificate
In anticipation of book 2, I’m growing my author list, so am {gulp} requesting for support and help from my Writer’s Fun Zone friends and followers. (I tend to be very independent and not ask for help; I’m changing that!)
Writers, Track Your Sales
Would you like to have your sales numbers compiled for you, instead of checking Amazon, B&N, iBooks, etc. every day? Would you like your ratings, rankings, and reviews collected and saved for you, too? Would you like an email every morning with the highlights of your books’ previous day activities?
Artist Entrepreneur: R for Résumé— The Artist’s Alphabet Guide to Writing About Your Art by Aletta de Wal
Each time you apply for admission to a competition or pitch an exhibition, you are effectively applying a “job.” Your résumé is a list of vital information about your art career designed to support your qualifications for a variety of purposes.
Character Development, Conflict, and Your Novel’s Sagging Middle by Beth Barany
When authors work with me, some of their challenges surround how to help the sagging middle of their novel. That sagging middle is often due to not knowing their characters well enough. All good...
Deep POV: Plunging off the Cliff by Kay Keppler
This simple example is just to demonstrate how deep POV works. Of course, nothing is ever absolute, and deep POV can get much deeper than this when you’re working in your own scenes.
The Author Entrepreneurship Magazine Jan 2013 issue is here: Get yours today!
Welcome to the January 2013 issue of the Author Entrepreneurship Magazine! I created this magazine to help authors create
sustainable and successful careers. It is my gift to you! This month’s theme is New Technology for Author Entrepreneurs.
Writing: Just Don’t Sit There! By Faith Van Horne
According to a slew of recent studies, even if you’re exercising when you’re not sitting, the act of sitting itself is physically damaging.
Right Brain Business Planning Course
I’m really excited to share with you a class one of my mentors is offering next week: FREE online Right-Brain Business Plan Course with CreativeLive. I’m taking her 6-month mentorship program and I love it! Scroll below to see my Big Vision vision board I created last week.
Healthy Writers Club: When Life Gets Busy, The Busy Get Walking, I Wish
Inspired by Josh Clark’s article on the site, coolrunning.com, I’ve been doing a Couch-to-5K training since Oct 2012. About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and...
Why Writers Need to Use Pinterest
Many writers look at me funny when I encourage them to get on Pinterest. They don’t see the connection. They write fiction. How can a picture-oriented site help them grow their audience?
Tying the Muse to the Chair by Laura Bickle
There are a lot of writers who have healthy relationships with their muses. They take their muses out on coffee dates and have long conversations at the beach while holding hands.
Tips for Writing Literotica
This past December, Fifty Shades of Grey was named as England’s Book of the Year. I’ll pause for reaction. Right. A book that while many may have enjoyed, was actually horribly written. The editing was non-existent, the plot and character development was horrendously flawed, and the repetition, my God, was frankly, just too much. But it won anyway and has also been recognized as the UK’s best selling book. They have J.K. Rowling and Charles Dickens, but yet, Fifty Shades of Grey still tops out.
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