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Publishers That Accept Writers Without Agents: Legend Press
This is the latest post in a series looking at publishers who will accept submissions from writers, even if they are not represented by an ...
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Life Is Too Short to Write Something Nobody Wants To Read.
In this article you will learn how to apply a strategy used to build successful companies to create popular and successful books. The strategy will ...
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Copy Editing: A New Product For Self-Publishing Writers
When BubbleCow was first born, self-publishing was, at best, a secondary option for most writers. However, the past few years have seen the publishing landscape ...
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Publishers That Accept Writers Without Agents: 40K Books
This is the latest post in a series looking at publishers who will accept submissions from writers, even if they are not represented by an ...
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How To Write Memorable Characters
In this article I will show you how to create memorable characters using four key elements. If you weave these elements into the characters that ...
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Amazon Book Sales Page Tips With Carolyn McCray
Last week, I was delighted to interview the marvelous Carolyn McCray about optimizing your Amazon book page as well as her Kindle bestseller, 30 Pieces ...
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First Royalty Cheque For Pentecost
So I have shared the entire journey of Pentecost with the readers of this blog, and I have tried to be transparent along the way. ...
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There’s More To eBooks Than Mobi And ePub
This is a guest post from Guido Henkel, author of the Jason Dark supernatural mysteries, including Curse of Kali, out now. Over the last fourteen ...
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Secrets Of A Prolific Writer With J.D.Sawyer
In this interview, author and polymath J.D.Sawyer talks about taking his word count to 4000-5000 per day as well as working with a writing partner ...
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Ebook or Print Book? Why Do You Have to Choose?
This is a guest post from Susan Daffron, The Book Consultant. Many aspiring authors around the blogosphere have been weighing the pros and cons of ...
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Can Blogging Really Be an Author’s Best Friend? :: The Writerly Art of “Pollination”
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield On Earth Day this year, Friday, April 22, I found myself reading a book about beekeeping, appropriately enough — given that ...
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The Right (and Wrong) Way to Comment on Blogs
Expert: Dana Lynn Smith Commenting on other people’s blogs is a great way to get visibility, build relationships with bloggers, subtly promote your book, and ...
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Twelve Big Blog Booboos
Or How to Make Your Blogging Efforts a Big Waste of Time Expert: Carolyn Howard-Johnson Blogging is easy. Blogging is fun. That’s both good and ...
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A Birds-Eye View of iBooks, iBookstore and iTunesProducer
Expert: Claudia Jackson Dear PC user, if you want to upload your books to the iBookstore, it’s time to find a friend with a MAC (sorry). ...
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Determine Your Goals to Help Promote your Book
Guest Expert: Teresa Morrow Your goal is to sell your book, right? However understanding the goals for your book will also be instrumental in your long ...
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Scribeslice: a New, Collaborative Website for Writers
I recently heard about a new site for writers called ...
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100 Stories for Queensland Now Available!
100 Stories for Queensland, the charity ...
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The Best Writing Forum in the World?
I hope you’ll forgive ...
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Check Out My New 'Writing Opportunities' Board
In association with the good folks at Donanza, I recently set up a jobs board for freelance writers, bloggers and other work-at-home professionals. The ...
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The WCCL Affiliate Program: 10 Reasons You Should Join Today!
As you may know, The WCCL Network publish my writing ...
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Self-Publishing with Amazon’s CreateSpace: A Resource Guide for the Author Considering Self-Publishing
The decision to self-publish can be a difficult one. Self-Publishing with Amazon’s CreateSpace: A Resource Guide for the Author Considering Self-Publishing can answer many questions ...
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Liza Chu – Dim Sum: A Survival Guide
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Dim Sum: A Survival Guide It’s a picture guidebook that takes foodies and ...
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Michelle Rollins – Miss Dimples and the Big Stink
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. This is my first book. It is a children’s fiction book. The setting ...
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Authors Who Take Easy Routes Find Book Selling Hard
With the onset of the Internet and digital printing, authors are finding it easier than ever to self-publish their books quickly, build their websites, and ...
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Stacey Anderson – Get Organized: Get Revitalized
What is your most recent book? Tell us a bit about it. Get Organized:Get Revitalized 80 Quick and Easy Tips to Get You Started. I ...
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Interrupting the Fictional Dream
Therese here. Today’s guest is New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum. Jenna, who has been named one of Oprah’s 30 Favorite Women Writers, ...
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Alyssa Sheinmel, part 2
Last week, we introduced you to YA novelist Alyssa Sheinmel. Known for her authentic storytelling and gripping plots, Alyssa’s latest book, The Lucky Kind, is ...
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Staying Out of the Story
I believe that our stories belong to the characters we create. For that reason, an entire work of fiction can be ruined for me when ...
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The Art of Dreaming
How many of you have vivid dreams? I do. I’ve wondered if there’s any correlation between those who have really detailed, realistic dreams, remember them, ...
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Do You Really Need an Author Blog if you’re on Facebook or Twitter?
Therese here. Today’s guest is Judy Dunn, whose blog -CatsEyeWriter-was recently named along with Writer Unboxed as one of the top ten blogs for writers ...
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Vote for Your Favourite Blogging Contest Finalists
Well, The First Ever Write It Sideways Blogging Contest is finally coming to a close. I’ve had such a great time reading everyone’s entries, choosing finalists, ...
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Writers Write–Creativity Is a State of Mind
Today’s post is written by Susan Bearman, a finalist in The First Ever Write It Sideways Blogging Contest. Thanks for joining us, Susan! It’s not an original ...
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Take a Chance with Your Writing
Today’s post is written by Patricia Woodside, a finalist in The First Ever Write It Sideways Blogging Contest. Welcome, Patricia! Writers are risk takers. Writing requires taking ...
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The Dilemma of The Mother Writer
Today’s post is written by Christi Craig, a finalist in The First Ever Write It Sideways Blogging Contest. Thanks, Christi! I love it when my kids get hold ...
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Use Your 5 Senses to Gauge Your Book’s Potential
Today’s post is written by Erika Liodice, a finalist in The First Ever Write It Sideways Blogging Contest. Thanks for joining us, Erika! You know what you ...
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Storyfixins… Weekend Wanderings, Wonderings and other Wistful Wackiness
“The Help”… nails it. I’d mentioned that I’m reading Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help” in preparation for serving up a series of analytical deconstruction posts here ...
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Putting the Character into Characterization
I’ve stumbled upon the magic pill of effective, compelling characterization. Me and a million other people who write about writing, and/or simply study and write ...
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Suffering is Optional
Or, Ten Ways to Totally Screw Up Your Novel Yesterday, just before going into a room to give a keynote address to 800 hungry ...
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Opinions are like… manuscripts. Everybody’s got one.
Ours is an opinion-driven avocation. From stellar manuscripts that are regularly tossed under the bus to the same old worn out A-list mediocrity, it’s all ...
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3 Edgy Little Tips to Make Your Story More Compelling
If you’ve studied the Six Core Competencies, you already know they comprise a set of requisite elements and skills that will get your novel into ...
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The Writing Spaces: A Tale of Twain’s Two Spaces
This week Robert Smedley reveals the incredible life, and amazing Writing Spaces, of ‘the father of American Literature’. By any standard, Mark Twain (aka Samuel ...
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Research Your Writing with ‘Scrible’ - Now in Beta
Researching your novel can be incredibly fun and very useful, but often a frustrating experience. Nowadays writers have the world at their fingertips, with the ...
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Write First, Publish Later
Today’s guest post comes from Lissete Lanuza, who reminds us to focus on the right thing - writing. You have an author’s page. You regularly ...
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Point of View: What and Why
Point of view is one of the most powerful, and underrated, tools that you have at your disposal when crafting fiction. It’s the difference between ...
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Me, My Work & I: Why Use a Pen Name?
Do you know what Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Louis de Conte, and Mark Twain have in common? You may well do, because they’re ...
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Mistake No 48: No-thank you
Ingratitude is the theme of today’s post, and while I’ve deliberately waited until some months after my last professional experience of it in order to ...
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Mistake No. 47: Forgetting your first time (and line)
The Easter pause gave me cause for reflection, and I slipped into daydreaming about my career path – where I’d been, where I was, where ...
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Mistake No. 46: The Digest has more than one Reader
Obviously, as a tutor, part of my job is to correct spelling – and that’s okay. At first, I may point out that a student ...
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Mistake No. 45: Not buying books and magazines
Writing Magazine is a bloody good read these days, and with the 2-in-1 merge with Writers’ News, editor Jonathan Telfer has done a terrific job ...
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Mistake No. 44: Do you want hyphens with that, sir?
Meet Rustic farmer Ben, presently ...
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How to Sell Your Book Plus Sales Tax For an Even Dollar Amount
Have you ever wanted to sell your book at an event for an even dollar amount that includes both book price and sales tax but ...
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PubToons #23: Angry Books
This issue of PubToons showcases a parody of the popular game Angry Birds.
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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement
“It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.” —William Somerset Maugham What if you have a great storyline and fully developed characters, ...
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Style Guides: A Free Icon Set for Writers
Whether you’re a writer, editor, or simply a grammar junkie—a trusty style guide is essential for keeping writing consistent and readable. In light of this, we’re ...
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PubToons #22: AP Stylebook vs. The Chicago Manual of Style
Join us for an epic showdown between the AP Stylebook and The Chicago Manual of Style.