A must for writers with great visual presentation. 🙂
Copyblogger and BlueGlass have created this awesome infographic with some common grammar mistakes, and how to avoid them. Enjoy!
My children’s book, Runaway Smile, is mercifully free of grammar goofs. Don’t believe me? Read it for free and find out for yourself!
Great #marketingtip 🙂
Here’s a handy example of data comparing various paid advertising options to book sales.
So you’ve published your book! Congratulations! All your hard work is now… beginning.
They told me all I had to do was write the damn thing… now you tell me 80% of the work is yet to be done?
That’s right, folks: it’s now time to sell your book. So roll back your sleeves, grab a sweatband, pull on the waders and let’s go into the murky waters of indie book advertising.
I got some lovely data from fantasy author and blogmate Nicholas C. Rossis, author of the dark epic fantasy Pearseus series featured in this data here. Nicholas has crunched some numbers beautifully in his own time – not least here, and here, and you should definitely go and have a look at them. Do that in a minute, though, once we’re done here, because seriously, folks, this data is only GORGEOUS.
Firstly, he had a comprehensive rundown of e-book advertising options which, although helpful, full…
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This blog is worth checking out. There are several helpful, content-rich posts relevant for authors. This article on fiction writing is just one example. Easily worth a follow.
Fiction writing smolders down to the basic concept of good versus evil. A good story will include a hero and a villain duking it out in a twisted plot designed to keep the reader on their toes. The really good stories—the ones we can’t put down—are home to unlikely and flawed heroes, i.e. the perfect hero. But how do we as writers and authors create the perfect hero? Is there a formula? Or do they just magically spring into existence on the page?
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Helpful writing tips. 🙂
Wouldn’t you just hate it if one day you woke up and all your WordPress posts had vanished? You don’t have to worry. Take a minute to backup your blog (all your hard work, blood, sweat, and tears), following the simple step-by-step instructions at the Storyreading Ape’s blog. It could be a life-saver. 🙂
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Wow. When I clicked the link, it was far more impressive than I was expecting. It’s amazingly comprehensive and useful, and the further you scroll down the more of a visual treat it becomes. You won’t be disappointed. 🙂
I love to collect words. Making word lists can help to find the voice of my story, dig into the emotion of a scene, or create variety.
One of my on-going word collections is of colors. I love to stop in the paint section of a hardware store and find new names for red or white or yellow.  Having a variety of color names at my fingertips helps me to create specificity in my writing. I can paint a more evocative image in my reader’s mind if I describe a character’s hair as the color of rust or carrot-squash, rather than red.
So for fun, I created this color thesaurus for your reference. Of course, there are plenty more color names  in the world, so, this is just to get you started.
Fill your stories with a rainbow of images!
Helpful info here.
Simple and effective, with three main points unlike the common “strategies.” Definitely worth checking out. 🙂
I made this on Quozio.com
My marketing strategy is really simple. In fact, it can be summed up as follows:
If you do that, people will buy your books simply because they will like you and will want to support you. In other words, “if people like what you’re saying, they’ll like what you’re selling.”
I have read many marketing guides, but have come to realize that it all boils down to how people perceive you. In marketing speech, your brand.
Having a consistent author brand is liberating. It allows you to publish pretty much anything you like, irrespective of genre. People will read your books because you have written them – and they trust you to offer them a good time.
The other day, a visitor to my blog asked me for…
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Splendid advice. 🙂
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