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February 3, 2018
New Indie Book Release: Midnight Secrets (Ditter Kellen)
by Alan Kealey Source link New Indie Book Release: Midnight Secrets – Ditter Kellen Paranormal Romance (187 Pages – January 2018) Midnight Secrets is full of angst, steam and draw dropping scenes, guaranteed to have you on…
The ‘Old School’ Factors that Lead to 21st-Century Sales
by Sonia Simone Source link When I first started out as a business owner, marketing my freelance copywriting services, I was very aware of my biggest constraint: I was a lousy salesperson. When I was a kid, I had a hard time selling raffle tickets to my own grandmother. And all the books I wass
Review: The Journal by R.D. Stevens
by John Staughton Source link ★★★★ Looking up to your siblings is something to which many people can relate, but in The Journal by R.D. Stevens, that sibling connection is particularly powerful and rare. On the cusp of adulthood, Ethan Willis is compelled to discover what happened to his sister, Charlotte, a wild adventurer whos
Flog a BookBubber 125: Patricia McLinn
by Ray Rhamey Source link Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for a “flogging” critique. Email as an attachment. Many of the folks who utilize BookBub are self-published, and because we hear over and over the need for self-published authors to have their work edited, it’s educational to take a hard look at theirs
Writing for the Web: 23 Things to Do Before Hitting Publish (+Checklist)
by Heidi Medina Source link You’ve checked your grammar and spelling. Now what? It’s time to hit the publish button, right? No, not yet. There’s so much more to writing than grammar and spelling, especially if you’re writing for the web. Print writing is so much less fussy because it doesn’t involve meta descriptions, keywords,s
Flash Fiction Challenge: SubGenre Shake-And-Bake, Baby
by terribleminds Source link And we return with an old favorite. We shall mash subgenres up and write the weird stories that result. I will give you 20 subgenres. You will pick two from the list either using a d20 or random number generator (or use monkey knuckles or coffee grounds or whatever), then you will write a short story that mashess
February 2, 2018
What No Sick Leave for Really Means to Freelance Writers
by Anne Wayman Source link No sick leave unfortunately doesn’t mean we freelance writers won’t get sick. I found myself laid up for two days with a cold just recently. I was sneezing and wheezing and feeling terrible for two days. I cancelled almost everything. The only writing I did was the post earlier thiss
Hoity-toity and gibberish
by The Proof Angel Source link Yes, I know it is an odd combination, but I just happened to come upon these two posts: Hoity-toity Gibberish Visit my websites via the links at the top of this page.
Manage Your Online Reputation with These Four Essential Assets
by Grammar Chic, Inc. Source link When’s the last time you made a major purchase without first doing a little online research? If you’re like most of us, you spend a little time online doing some due diligence before you ever commit to a high-priced product or service. And after all, why wouldn’t you? Googless
Half of Writing Is Editing
by JW Source link Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are nots
