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.
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by Beth Barany · Published January 17, 2013 · Last modified January 18, 2013
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.
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.
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.
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by Beth Barany · Published January 14, 2013
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.
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...
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?
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.
by Beth Barany · Published January 10, 2013 · Last modified December 28, 2025
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.
Welcome back to our weekly posts from bestselling author and book marketing consultant, Ezra Barany. Yes, and he’s my husband. This article on how to draft a book trailer script is also one of...
If you’re stuck for subject matter to blog about, just take a look around and see what’s going on in the world.
I resist opening Daniel Pink’s new book, TO SELL IS HUMAN. But I bought it, I’m drawn to it, so I finally crack it open, but not in the beginning. I have to read it out of order, to maintain my irrational defiance.
In the course of marketing my YA fantasy novel, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer, I’ve written posts on Kick Ass Heroines, Bad Girl Archetypes, the Wild Woman Archetype. To me these posts are about are...
What inspires you? Where do you get your ideas? Do you get these questions a lot? I do!
Here’s what I told them recently…
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...
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