The 10 Steps to Becoming a Successful Indie Author
You want it, don’t you?! I mean success as an author! What does that mean to you? To me, it means fame, fortune and giving my readers a satisfying and memorable experience that they want more of!
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
VIDEO: “How To Instantly Brainstorm Any Idea In Minutes”
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. I like this guys spunk and scrappiness. Cool tool, too! A shout out to him: Follow him on twitter: http://twitter.com/travelhead Discover the unique...
Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers: #1
This is #1 in a series of articles on Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers for Writers, a new weekly series designed to inspire you, motivate you and get you writing up a storm!...
Author Entrepreneurs: We Walk Alone Together
I learned yesterday in an awesome Human Design session with Julien Adler just how much I’m blazing my own trail. Darn! I look out into the field of other artist entrepreneurs and wonder how I can be more like them… Oops! I mean, what can I learn from them. Because I’m walking my own path. Other artist entrepreneurs like…
Social Media Tip for Authors #8: Reciprocate
Many authors think that social media is like traditional advertising, all shouting at ya’ . But it’s not. Social media is social, which means authors succeed at it when we listen and give back. If you just listen deeply to your audience and talk about the things that are important to them then you will be included in their tribe and they will want to buy your book.
Thank God for Book Reviewers!
I used to be a book reviewer, back in the early days of my writing career. In fact, the second thing I ever got published was a review of Katherine Neville’s The Eight. I...
Don’t Use Twitter If…
Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to have fun… Don’t use Twitter if you don’t want to connect with your readers. Don’t use Twitter is you don’t want to experiment with writing in 140 characters or less. Less is better.
INDIE AUTHORS: Top 2 Tips to Selling Books
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
VIDEO: Overcoming Arts True Test: Discipline
Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. While artists are known for following whims and dodging routine, the Irish painter Guggi insists that hard-work, structure, and a refusal to put down even the most frustrating piece, are the keys to developing ones talent.
Spark Your Creativity with the 5 Senses: Taste
This is #5 in a series of articles on Creativity and Inspiration for Writers. Tips shared here are inspired by my e-book, Overcome Writer’s Block, and will soon also be part of a course at We Write Books community. How can we be a better writers, or get re-inspired in our writing? Let’s tap into our five senses. I’ve already written about sight, sound, smell and touch. Today is taste!
Author Entrepreneurs, We Succeed Together
Since we often work at home alone, isolated from each other, we often forget that we only succeed in community. Authors write books. Readers read them. Booksellers and distributors get the books to the...
CRAFT: Do You Get the Message?
Welcome to the another article in the Craft series, this one by Bobbye Terry, a frequent guest columnist at the Writer’s Fun Zone. ^*^ Do You Get the Message? Theme is one of the...
We All Have An Instinct for Dragons
Welcome to the Wednesday series on Fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’ll just come right out and say it! {I’m getting used to saying it!} I’m releasing my YA fantasy on February 28,...
INDIE AUTHOR: Being a 21st Century Author Means Re-Thinking Your Path
I’m rearranging the order of things and having a guest columnist talk about her adventure into becoming an award winning bestselling indie author! Please meet the talented and savvy Kris Tualla. She’s stopping by...
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