Writer's Fun Zone by Beth Barany

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Writing Tips

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...

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Future of Publishing / publishing

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.

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inspiration / Writing Tips

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.

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book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales

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.

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inspiration / Writing Tips

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…

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Book Promotion

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.

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