6 Tips for Authors Creating a Marketing Campaign

Trying to start a campaign to market your book? Here are six great tips for doing so. Click the linked title for the full article.• Devise plan to market your self-published book It’s the rare book…

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Using Contradictions to Create Microtension – Part 6

Explore the concept of microtension and how contradictions between character emotions and settings can create powerful narratives.

C. S. Lakin
A New AI Scam Is Targeting Thousands of Authors. I Was One of Them.

With their blend of ego and insecurity, writers are ideal marks for swindlers promising fortune and glory. Chatbots have turbocharged the con.

The Hollywood Reporter
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They're (NOT) Gonna Put You in the Movies: Book-to-Film Scams

Book-to-film scams naming streaming services like Netflix are a new variation on the old Hollywood writing scams. Beware!

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Prologue, epilogue offer info, action to boost tale

Sometimes a novel begs for a different opening than what appears in Chapter 1, though the story really begins with those opening first lines. Or the novel might need a different closing despite the…

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How to Format Main Text for Your Print Book

Once you’ve got your book with the front and back matter completed, the next step is to place all of that text into a form that can be uploaded and printing. Essentially, you’re creating on fi…

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Strive for Originality when Writing Fiction

When writing fiction, you want to be original; that is, your plot, characters, setting and ideas should be fresh or novel (no pun intended).After all, to some degree, you decided to start writ…

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