Twitter for Authors: A Success Story, The Follow Up by Beth Barany
I reported a few weeks ago how Twitter provides opportunities for authors, and how I scored a cool opportunity via Twitter: to be a guest blogger on BookBaby’s blog.
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
What I’ve Learned the Hard Way About Book Marketing by Gail Z. Martin
Welcome to guest writer, fantasy author Gail Z. Martin. In celebration of the release of her new book, Ice Forged, she’s sharing what she’s learned the hard way about book marketing. Great tips! Thanks Gail!...
Sunday Field Trip: Beauvais, France
Inspired by being on Terry Odell’s blog this week, in her weekly column, Friday Field Trip, I’d like to take us a field trip to France, specifically Beauvais, France, which is the setting of one of my stories. Hope you enjoy it!
Healthy Writers Club: Just Go Fo It!
About weekly I share my Exercise Log to stay accountable to my commitment to my health and to the Healthy Writers Club, a collection of writers dedicated to health and movement started by author Shallee McArthur. In this log, I also reflect on my writing, creativity, and a creative life.
How to Use Facts and Scientific Studies for Writing Online by Beth Barany
You know how to help your clients, and now you want to reach more potential clients through your writing online.
Writing Exercise: Engineering Your Character by Khanh Ho
Who hasn’t had a delicate question that burned to be asked? Who hasn’t been ashamed to do so? For many years, Dear Abby was at the center of American consciousness and she fielded all sorts of questions—from etiquette to morality to good taste—that baffled us in this modern American world that was constantly changing, morphing, evolving.
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.
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.
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