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Book marketing ideas that sell: managing luck

If you’re new to book marketing, you probably have a lot of questions that need answers. Here are two that come up a lot: Does book marketing work? Is it worth the time and money? The answer to both questions is a definite yes. To elaborate, let’s compare book marketing to playing the lottery. If you buy a lottery ticket, you have a small, very small chance to win a ton of money. If you don’t buy...

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Article collections for writers and authors

I’ve created a large number of artilces dealing with topics of interest ot witers and authors. Thses topics include fiction writing, self-publishing, book marketing and business issues. These articles were originally publishied on various websites and hard to find. Now I’ve gathered them and bundled them onto my website and provided links for easy access to the articles. You can find the list of...

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The Landing Page Challenge

You need to know this stuff! If you self-publish your book, you face a marketing challenge. The challenge is to get people to buy your book. In today’s world, most buyers shop for books online. If you do any marketing research, you’ll be shocked at how many different marketing tactics you can use to try to get people to buy your book. When you strip away all the marketing jargon and doublespeak...

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Article compilations ���

I’ve written a lot of articles in the last year. They are primarily on fiction writing, self-publishing, book marketing and author business. These articles have been published on a few different sites such as Medium, LinkedIn and blogger sites. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been an index of the articles and most of them have been seen by only a handful of people who may be interested in reading them.

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How Stories Are Created

Stories are created by merging three separate creative processes: 1: Ideas 2: Story design 3: Storytelling techniques These three creative processes apply no matter the type of story: novel, short story, script or screenplay. The only difference between these types of stories is the output. The manuscript for a novel will look much different from the manuscript for a screenplay.

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Do you know about the Wordflex app?

Do you use the Wordflex app? Did you ever hear of it? As a writer, I use it constantly. What is it? Wordflex is a graphical Thesaurus. To use it, you type a word into the search box and it shows up on the main screen. Tap the word and the magic begins as the app expands with all possible alternatives to the search word. Now tap on the usage you’re interested in and watch the screen fill up with...

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Scene Design: the building blocks of a story

INTRODUCTION Just as words are the building blocks of sentences, and sentences are the building blocks of paragraphs, and paragraphs are the building blocks of scenes, so too scenes are the building blocks of fictional works. Scenes, however, aren’t simply a collection of paragraphs; they must have a structure to be effective. A scene is a complex undertaking requiring a degree of planning.

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The Importance Of A Character Arc In A Story

Here’s a fiction writing problem. If you look through most books on fiction writing, you’ll find little on the importance of a character arc. The book may mention the story needs such an arc, but there is little more than that. Certainly, the book will not mention the importance of the arc. And that is a shame because I submit that the character arc is one of the most important elements in the...

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Fiction Writing Solutions To Problem Areas

Are you looking for resources that will improve your stories? Here is a site with resources to just that! Imagine learning how to Mind-map your story Create an emotional arc for the story Write humor and satire stories Integrate all the story elements into a story development plan Learn story-telling techniques Build a plot and still more Look over the table below to see if your pain point...

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Self-publish your book in 10 steps

The ten steps covered in this email course are: Completing the initial tasks Getting professional help Writing the book description Completing more preliminary work Working on the initial marketing tasks Developing your author platform Finishing up the pre-launch activities Getting book reviews Announcing the book’s availability Working on the post-launch marketing Once you signup for the course...

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