How Do You Develop a Villain? Developing Your Characters Part 5
The character we love to hate. I write fantasy and paranormal, so yeah, the villain, is kind of important. I did some fancy footwork to not have a huge villain in the first book...
The character we love to hate. I write fantasy and paranormal, so yeah, the villain, is kind of important. I did some fancy footwork to not have a huge villain in the first book...
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra addresses how to price your ebooks. Good news! This week’s winner of a 30-minute complimentary consultation of your book with Ezra is:...
Welcome back to Sunday Videos for Writers, where I post funny, insightful or useful videos for authors. Or plain inspiring ones like this video I found on a random search on youtube for “writer’s block.”...
If we readers love your characters, then we’ll go with them just about anywhere. Last week I talked about sharing the telling detail about a character through nouns and verbs. As writers, it’s our...
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra plays with the bus metaphor for character development. Good news this week’s winner of a 30-minute complimentary consultation of your novel with...
Beth Barany here! Welcome back to Sunday Videos for Writers, where I post funny, insightful or useful videos for authors. This week’s video was suggested by author, Laura Deal. Thank you! Whiney Writer – Opening...
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. This week Ezra answers the question, How can you motivate people to market the compilation they are published in? Getting your book in a compilation...
Beth Barany here! Welcome back to Sunday Videos for Writers, where I post funny, insightful or useful videos for authors. This week’s video was suggested by author, Alica Mckenna Johnson. Thank you! I LURVED...
by Beth Barany · Published August 17, 2011 · Last modified August 15, 2011
Welcome to Q & A Wednesdays by Book Mentor, Ezra Barany. Ezra answers the question, “What are you glad you did with regards to self-pubbing? And what do you wish you had known before...
I find mine often in books and movies. Tonight I watched 2 very different films with my husband, Ezra. We saw “From Paris With Love” and “Ponyo.” I have to say I loved Ponyo...
Welcome to my series of Interviews with Indie Authors. Today I feature — quite proudly — the release of my husband’s suspense novel, The Torah Codes. In celebration of the day, we’re doing a...
Many authors think that the writing and publishing is the hard part. But actually your work is just getting started. Are you making time to market, connect with your readers, or even communicate to your readers and tell the world that your cool book is available or soon will be?! If you just take a few steps regularly — 15 to 30 minutes a day — you’ll find more readers, create more opportunities for people to tell their friends about you and ultimately sell more books!
In this post I’ll outline 3 effective strategies on how to tell people about your book. Yeah! Marketing baby!
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