How do books get on the best-seller list?
by Ashley Hayes — Many new writers dream of having their books on the best-seller list, but how does a writer accomplish this? Newspapers around the globe publish their own best-seller lists, looking at...
Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany
Unpublished Authors Can Market Too: Top 5 Posts
The call to action in today’s 31 Days Blog Challenge is all about Sneeze pages. (Achhoo!) You know, Best Of and all that. Good for SEO, google love. So, I’m doing a Top 5...
Event Announcement: The Top 3 Secrets to Selling Books With Social Networking
Beth Barany shares some of her best secrets, insights and
approaches that have helped her clients become bestselling
authors.
What is SmashWords.com?
The Monday, “What Is That?” Series today features SmashWords.com. The weekly “What Is That?” Series highlights new publishing technologies in the ever-changing publishing world, especially for independent novelists. Nonfiction authors will find much value in these tool, too.
Writing Advice from Meg Cabot (on video)
Welcome to the Sunday series of writing advice from famous authors as told through video. In this 2-minute video, Meg Cabot, of the Princess Diaries fame, reveals how to write a novel: You need a beginning, middle and end. And don’t forget the sitting down and writing part.
Interview Your Author: Writing Prompt
For Writing Prompt Saturdays, today, interview your author… Okay, I’ll explain. One of my favorite activities is journaling where I dialogue between various parts of me, like my editor and my writer, or my...
This Week in Book Sales and Marketing
It’s Friday and here, in no particular timelime order… my reporting and cheeky opinion about this week’s news in book sales and marketing. If you have something you think should be included in this list, like a book marketing campaign that really helped your sales, or get publicity, email me using the contact form above, and I may include it in my weekly biased and random list.
Increase Your Book Sales… Before Your Write Your Book
Is it possible? Well, anything is possible? The real question is: Are you willing to take the risk? It’s risky to look outward at the Other and ask: What do you want?
Brainstorm Your Way to Success
I was looking back in my Writer’s Fun Zone archives and was surprised to see I’ve never written a post on brainstorming. Free writing exercises, yes. Inspiration, yes, but never brainstorming, specifically. Why is that? I assume, perhaps wrongly so, all writers know how to brainstorm. Deeper than that, I have mixed feelings about visual brainstorming…
What is GetGlue.com?
What is GetGlue? GetGlue is a service that helps you find your next favorite movie, book, music album or other every day thing (here’s a list of supported categories). GetGlue shows you things that you’ll like based on your personal tastes, what your friends like, and what’s most popular on GetGlue.
Writing Advice from Novelist, Lee Child
A video interview of Novelist, Lee Child. What do you think of his advice?
Happy Birthday Buckyballs! Story Prompt
Science is beautiful. “Interactive Google doodle marks 25 years since discovery of buckminsterfullerene C60, or the buckyball.”
This Week in Book Marketing and Publishing
Today, I’m instituting a new tradition here at Writer’s Fun Zone, and will list some of the best resources I’ve found on book marketing and publishing. Ideally, this will be a weekly post, but nature and the gods may have other ideas. For now, it’s an idea I’m rolling with…
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