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Traditional, Self-pub and Hybrid publishing all require author effort to market your book. Writing Tip for Today: Here are some things to consider to market your work: Know Your Place Before you publish any book, you’ll need to know exactly where it should be on the shelf. Knowing the genre, topic or niche helps readers […]
We’ve gone through structural, intermediate and copy editing for your fiction. Now let’s talk about Beta Readers. Writing Tip for Today: What are Beta Readers good for and how can you find them? The What Beta Readers are usually unpaid volunteers who read your manuscript and then give you feedback. Before you get to this […]
Writers everywhere seem to dread the platform side of writing. We’d all rather cocoon ourselves and write, right? Here’s a different way to look at this oft-postponed task. Writing Tip for Today: Three ways to build your readership: Before You Write Ideally, even before you have a marketable book or short piece, you’ll think about […]
A few years ago, obscure yet devoted writers like me were informed that we had to be a brand. We needed a tag line, as if we were products on TV, and we had to pick one type of thing to write. Writing Tip for Today: After more than a decade of urging by PR […]
One of the basic questions I like to ask fiction writers is, “What genre is your work?” By that, I mean, where in the bookstore or on the shelf could readers locate your book? If you take more than a half-second to answer, maybe you should take time to classify your book as closely as […]
With traditional publishing changing so quickly, many writers turn to independent or self-publishing to get their work out there. OK, it’s “out there.” Now what? Writing Tip for Today: Let’s discuss a few easy ways to market your work: But It’s on Amazon I do a lot of coaching, and many who have self-pubbed […]
Elizabeth Craig’s fun post on writing a mystery got me thinking about other genres. Since romance is the type of novel I’m attempting to learn, I thought I’d throw out some of the things Romance Writing has taught me so far.Writing Tip for Today: 3 useful additions to a Romance: Meet and Greet. Get the […]
A fitting subject for today’s post might be how writers write about war.Writing Tip for Today: Occasionally a writing student will write about war in a novel or short story. The gravity of the subject is often difficult reading, but I offer some pointers that I think might help: Decide How Much Your Readers Can […]
Many successful authors preach passion. That is, they urge writers to follow their bliss, write the stuff their hearts say is their passion. But that coming-of-age novel or literary book you’re on fire about may have to wait.Writing Tip for Today: At least as many literary agents advise writers to “write something that sells,” in […]
Many writers struggle with the ratio of scene to narrative in both novels and creative nonfiction. The writer must understand the readers’ limit or threshold for narrative. How can a writer master this skill?Writing Tip for Today: The amount of narrative (telling) versus the amount of scene (showing or acting out) or Narrative Pacing, is […]