As I was sitting in my favorite chair in my family room watching the Chicago Cubs beat the snot out of the Los Angeles Dodgers – my team – during the fourth National League Championship game, I thought how similar NaNoWriMo
Please welcome author and book coach in training Carol Malone.Today she’s sharing her article regarding various ways to make book editing fun. Enjoy!
Please welcome Hugh Tipping to our Featured Q&A series at Writer’s Fun Zone. If you’d like to be considered for an interview, check out our guidelines here.
Once you type “The End” on your marvelous, ground-breaking manuscript, all is not complete. You now need people to read and adore your book, and sing your story praises to the world. What you need is a book reviewer, someone who spends a great majority of their day just reading books and letting the world know if the book is a hit or a flop.
Anthologies are often the first place a brand newbie writer can get published. Which is why many colleges and writing clubs collect and print anthologies. Inclusion in an anthology increases the value of group membership and lifts all boats – or in this case, author’s street cred.
In my live #askaWritingCoach chat this week, I shared book campaigns tips for self-publishing novelists. I answered questions and shared resources. And as I do each week, I gave away prizes to those people who...
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published April 22, 2016 · Last modified April 27, 2016
In my live #askaWritingCoach chat this week, I shared book launch tips for self-publishing novelists. I answered questions and shared resources. And as I do each week, I gave away prizes to those people...
Author Marketing / book marketing / Book Promotion / video
by Beth Barany · Published March 30, 2016
In my weekly live #askaWritingCoach chat this week I shared 12 book marketing tips and some underlying presuppositions, an overview of many of the topics I’ll cover in my upcoming Branding and Marketing for...
Author Career / Author Entrepreneur / video
by Beth Barany · Published March 26, 2016 · Last modified March 25, 2016
In my weekly live #askaWritingCoach chat this week, I interviewed Heather on the foundations of building a creative business — space to create and systems — plus answered your questions and gave away her...
On one of my recent weekly Wednesday live chats (on the 7 keys to author success), a writer asked me how I juggle working on my fiction while working full time. As you may know,...
In Get Writing Your Novel News :: August 2016: The next free mini-course “Plan Your Novel” contests open up. :: October 2016: The next live “Plan Your Novel” course opens. (The Homestudy/self-paced/DIY version is...
Word of mouth still sells more books than any other promotional tool out there. If you just state what you write in a way that generates curiosity, then you can get more people engaged...
How many times have we read a book, or a short story, or a terrific blog post and thought to ourselves, “man, this is great. I wish I’d written it.” I do that all the time.
book marketing / Book Promotion
by Beth Barany · Published March 11, 2016 · Last modified March 10, 2016
Registration closes tonight night, Friday, March 11, 9pm Pacific/12midnight Eastern for the our “How to Get Book Reviews” 2-week course (March 14-28, 2016). In this course we will cover how to get reviews from...
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