Five Great Quotations about Storytelling

“I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.” – Sherman Alexie“The principles of storytelling do not change. Going home. Coming of age. Sin and redemption. The h…

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Add Reader’s Guide to End of Your Novel

Readers who have reached the end of your novel are prime candidates to talk about your book. One great way to encourage them to do so is by adding a reader’s guide. This provides some boost to…

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5 Tips on Selling Books Within Your Book

Click the title for a link to the article: • Include note asking readers to post a review• Place social media addresses in your book • Add social sharing links to your ebook• Ask at end of your boo…

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8 Tips on Creating an Author’s Platform

• What exactly is an ‘author platform’? One of the most heard phrases mentioned when marketing a self-published book is author platform. Despite how commonly it’s heard, there’s a lot of confusion …

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4 Tips on Distributing Your Self-Published Book

• Aim to simultaneously publish paperback, ebookWriters sometimes wonder which version of their book they should print first – the paperback or the ebook. Ideally, both would come out at about the …

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Constructing Your Story’s Main Character

Typically a story is about a single character who overcomes some problem. This player in your story is called the main character. Common examples are Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” J…

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Five Great Quotations about Our Readers

“…for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.” &#821…

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I just made the rookie mistake of re-reading the previous chapter while I’m still in the first draft phase of my novel. Boy those sure were sentences alright. I should probably not have looked at those sentences because I’m grabbing the sledgehammer.

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Five Great Quotations about Novels

“On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.” – Penelope Fitzgerald“No one sa…

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How to Make Characters Three-Dimensional

Today’s sophisticated readers generally demand that your stories contain three-dimensional characters, that is, a protagonist who behaves like a real person and who probably grows by learning …

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