book marketing / Book Promotion / book sales
by Beth Barany · Published February 1, 2011 · Last modified February 8, 2011
I’m inspired by Kristen Lamb to do a Twitter Tuesdays series. Today is #1! Today we’ll focus on something I got from Kristen’s book, We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. (She’s going to think I’m a stalker! I can’t say enough nice and gushing things about her book!)
Many authors turn to words for sustenance, and to feed their imaginative self. But they sometimes neglect to feed the part of themselves that nurtures their image making ability: visual art.
Creativity Tools and Tips / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published January 27, 2011 · Last modified January 24, 2011
Welcome to this week’s guest post from author, Bobbye Terry, wherein she shares about character voice, and makes fun of me… *^* Stop talking to me! You have to quit! Be quiet for now,...
As an indie novelists, and book coach and editor, I’m always trawling the ‘net for news on anything that affects authors and anything that can hint at which way the wind is blowing. The...
by Beth Barany · Published January 22, 2011 · Last modified November 28, 2025
As a writer, I’ve often shunned creativity prompts. Why do I need them? I am so creative; I can sit down and just write. Ah! But it wasn’t always this way.
Welcome to a new Wednesday series about fairy tales, fantasy and other topics that inspire me as a fiction author. To relax and get inspired, I like to read fairy tales. Modern, old, new,...
The best snappy dialogue that comes to my mind is from the movies of the 30’s and 40’s, think Kathryn Hepburn, and Cary Grant. These are the two actors who I think of as the King and Queen of snappy dialogue.
Future of Publishing / publishing
by Beth Barany · Published January 17, 2011 · Last modified January 16, 2011
In no particular order, here are some resources I’ve come across recently that have helped inform my life as in indie novelist and my life as coach and consultant to authors. Educate yourself. Get...
Written and posted for Day 25 the day after, I’m blatantly cheating on my 31 Day Blog Challenge. I’m a writer. My passion is fiction. This post is real, though fiction is that I...
What is the Writer’s Fun Zone? A place to play with writing… my writing. Your writing. A place to explore what book writing, book marketing and book selling are all about. A place where mistakes and failures are welcome words, where you can ask for and receive support — it’s a place of your making.
Author Career / Book Promotion / publishing
by Beth Barany · Published November 5, 2009 · Last modified December 30, 2009
It you’re a published novelists, I’d like to get your input for an article I’m writing for The National Networker and other venues. We all read in our genre, pay attention to what has recently sold via PublishersWeekly.com. What other strategies do you use to determine what will sell? Do tell! Email me directly by Sunday 11/8 and I will send you my questionnaire.Thanks! http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/
Once Upon A Time… Bring Magic Into Your Fiction class Welcome Writers! Today is the last day to get Early Bird Pricing at $55 off! The code is: fairytale10 Be sure to hit recalculate....
Research and Development / Writing Tips
by Beth Barany · Published August 14, 2009 · Last modified April 15, 2024
From the stork? No silly! From resources, both internal and external, online and offline. From personal experience, I’d say character names come from our imagination and our life experience.
Writers, what are you reading that inspires you? What are you reading that inspires your writing? I’m still reading The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. And today is Excerpt Thursday, so here goes.
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