7 Ways I Got on the Amazon Bestsellers Lists
How Amazon bestseller and award-winning author of the thriller, The Torah Codes, Ezra Barany, really got on the bestsellers’ lists.
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Indie Author Spotlight: Cheryl Shireman
Welcome to Indie Author Mondays, where I feature articles and interviews about the exciting field of independent author publishing. This week I feature an author interview with Cheryl Shireman; she’s spunky, she’s independent and she’s full of vim and vigor. I’m inspired just interviewing her. Enjoy!
Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight: Tom Barczak
Welcome to the weekly Indie Fantasy Author Spotlight. Today we feature Tom Barczak, author of Awakening Evarun. Thanks for stopping by, Tom! I enjoyed your interview! Yes, write on! ^*^ Beth: What got you...
Video Q&A with Book Mentor, Ezra Barany: What do you wish you had known before you started?
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...
What Inspires the Creator of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer?
Lots and lots of chocolate, hard rock music, long walks, and wacking a sticking against a punching bag. And writing! Because as my clients and students know: Writing begets writing. Yes, it’s the time...
Indie Author Feature: Creating Characters That Come Alive
We writers know our story circles around three things: plot, setting, and character. I’d like to talk about character. I know you have heard a dozen different ways to create characters, but how about one more time, only with a different take on them.
Indie Authors: We Are Stronger Together
Just a quick shout out to all the cool online communities I’m part of that support my life as an indie author: Shewrites.com: If you do join — yes, it’s free — connect with...
Indie Author Giveway and Intro: Ezra Barany’s The Torah Codes
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...
CRAFT: What About Worldbuilding For a Series?
Welcome to our bi-weekly posts from guest columnist, Bobbye Terry. This week she asks some great questions for world building your series. We’re curious to hear your tips too! Share your thoughts with us! Thanks!
INDIE AUTHORS: What Are the Top 10 Tips to Successful Self-Publishing?
Welcome to our weekly installment on how to create your indie author success! This week I have a guest post from an award-winning author, Suzanne Tyrpak. Her latest book, Vestal Virgin, a historical thriller...
Author Entrepreneur: Do You Make The Time to Succeed?
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!
CRAFT: What does Author Convenience and Aristotle have to do with each other?
Authors have a job to do and they have to fool readers in order to do it. In good writing, the author seems to disappear and the reader gets lost in the story. It’s as if the story is telling itself. Yet author convenience, or author intrusion, breaks through the story veil and doesn’t let the reader get caught up in the story.
INDIE AUTHORS: What is Your #1 Tip for Marketing?
Hot off the presses! I recently asked my friends at the Indie Authors Unite on Facebook (and their site) what their #1 marketing tip was. Here’s what they had to say!
INDIE AUTHORS: Top 2 Tips to Selling Books
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
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