What Can Creativity Do? Video Sundays
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Spark Your Creativity with the 5 Senses: Go All Visual
Many authors turn to words for sustenance, and to feed their imaginative self. But they sometimes neglect to feed the part of themselves that nurtures their image making ability: visual art.
How Do I Get People to Buy My Book?
In this post I’ll outline 3 effective strategies on how to tell people about your book. Yeah! Marketing baby!
The Care and Feeding of Characters: How to get them to speak in their natural and distinct voices
Welcome to this week’s guest post from author, Bobbye Terry, wherein she shares about character voice, and makes fun of me… *^* Stop talking to me! You have to quit! Be quiet for now,...
Stories of Strong Women: The Serpent Slayer
I am a young adult fantasy writer. My debut novel, Henrietta, the Dragon Slayer, will be released this spring! Yesterday I was making a list of all the things I thought my readers of...
Blogging as the Center of Your Social Media, Especially your Tags
This is a weekly post on social media for authors, usually appearing on Thursdays. Tuesdays is good, too. Authors, take note of this simple fact: “The more often you blog the more site visitors you will have, and the more people will know about you, and buy your books!”
Resources for Indie Novelists: The Future is in The News
As an indie novelists, and book coach and editor, I’m always trawling the ‘net for news on anything that affects authors and anything that can hint at which way the wind is blowing. The...
Malcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce — TED Talk video
It’s another video in our Sunday Video for Authors series. If you have a video that you love re: writing, creativity, etc., I’d love to know about it. I’m learning to love video and...
Structure and Creativity: Timed Writing
As a writer, I’ve often shunned creativity prompts. Why do I need them? I am so creative; I can sit down and just write. Ah! But it wasn’t always this way.
Business Planning for Creative Entrepreneurs
Welcome to the new Friday series on the business side of being a creative entrepreneur. You know you’re in the category if you’re an artist who sells his or her work, or you’re wanting to do that. You’re in this category if you are: * creativity coach who coaches artists and is an artist, including writers…
Social Media for Authors: Tip #10
This Thursday marks the beginning of my social media for author tip series, where I offer you tips to put into practice the social media tips you hear rolling around out there so that...
Fairytales Inspire Me: The Fairy Realm
Welcome to a new Wednesday series about fairy tales, fantasy and other topics that inspire me as a fiction author. To relax and get inspired, I like to read fairy tales. Modern, old, new,...
Writing Snappy Dialogue by Janice Seagraves
The best snappy dialogue that comes to my mind is from the movies of the 30’s and 40’s, think Kathryn Hepburn, and Cary Grant. These are the two actors who I think of as the King and Queen of snappy dialogue.
10 Resources for Indie Novelists
In no particular order, here are some resources I’ve come across recently that have helped inform my life as in indie novelist and my life as coach and consultant to authors. Educate yourself. Get...
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