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COURSES FOR GENRE NOVELISTS Click here to go to Barany School of Fiction! Check out our premiere course here: 30-Day Writing Challenge to Plan Your Novel. We’re all about helping novelists write, market, and publish their...
by Beth Barany · Published March 30, 2015 · Last modified August 16, 2026
COURSES FOR GENRE NOVELISTS Click here to go to Barany School of Fiction! Check out our premiere course here: 30-Day Writing Challenge to Plan Your Novel. We’re all about helping novelists write, market, and publish their...
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published March 4, 2015 · Last modified May 16, 2017
What is a Facebook Party: A Facebook party is organized as an event via your Facebook page. By creating an event via your Facebook page, you have a specific place to invite your friends and fans to, and to share, and to ask others to share.
artist entrepreneur / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published October 3, 2014 · Last modified October 2, 2014
“My greatest obstacle is to learn to market my work without fear. Art galleries, publishers, clients, newspaper reporters, all the questions, art receptions; talking about my work with strangers, being the center of attention, it’s overwhelming.”
May 29, 2014 Hello my friends! My newsletter service is glitching so I’m sharing my newsletter here! Here we focus on creating fiction and sharing it with the world, because when we travel into...
You could just launch into writing, but three steps in preparation will help you focus your writing.
Your signature style unites your art as your voice unites your writing.
artist entrepreneur / Guest Columnists
by Beth Barany · Published July 5, 2013 · Last modified June 24, 2013
Welcome to the Artist Entrepreneur Column, an occasional series where we talk about the fun, wild and scary ride of succeeding as an artist entrepreneur of all stripes and types and mediums. Welcome back guest...
Welcome back to guest writer, fantasy author Gail Z. Martin. Today Gail discusses the supposed publishing apocalypse and how to survive it! Enjoy! *** The Hawthorn Moon Sneak Peek Event includes book giveaways, free...
Welcome to guest writer, fantasy author Gail Z. Martin. In celebration of the release of her new book, Ice Forged, she’s sharing what she’s learned the hard way about book marketing. Great tips! Thanks Gail!...
Each time you apply for admission to a competition or pitch an exhibition, you are effectively applying a “job.” Your résumé is a list of vital information about your art career designed to support your qualifications for a variety of purposes.
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published May 15, 2012 · Last modified May 16, 2012
Welcome guest columnist, Karma Bennett, Publicist, Social Media Consultant and Writer. When I met Karma recently at a meeting for book publicists and those interested in book publicity (like me!) I was struck by...
Welcome to my new weekly series on writing prompts to overcome writer’s block. More prompts and tools can be found in my Amazon bestseller, Overcome Writer’s Block, available on Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords. As Anne Lamott encourages us: Shitty first drafts welcome here. Goal: Write for 20 minutes without stopping to get the writing moving.
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Ezra Barany · Published February 8, 2012 · Last modified February 7, 2012
A lot of authors find marketing their book involves hours, days, years of their lives when all they really want to do is be writing. Here’s a simple task that will shave off hours of marketing your book to make marketing easy and result in more book sales.
by Beth Barany · Published September 10, 2011 · Last modified September 9, 2011
If we want the good habits of a successful writer, we start taking action today. That way our good habits of today become our success of tomorrow. This may sound like a bunch of...
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