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Fall 2022~~ Marketing Advice

“Podcasting is great. Total freedom.”   ~~Bill Burr, Comedian Podcasters Are Looking for You Part of a good marketing strategy is finding podcasters that will interview you and linking those interviews to your webpage. Here are some steps to help you do that: Find podcasters that deal with your genre. A few possibilities are listed

Fall 2022 ~~ Contests and Markets

NOTE: We add to this page about twice a month. Check back often. ✅ I found David McDannald’s post about Literary Magazines seeking long form prose on Facebook. I checked out his site and recommend you do the same. Visit https://www.davidmcdannald.com/litmag.... While I cannot guarantee that every listing is still active, I’m including 4 samples

Fall 2022 — Scintillating Starts Contest

“You don’t lose until you quit trying.”   ~~Richard T. Brown, Jr.  2022 Scintillating Starts Opportunity Openings matter. They determine whether a potential agent will represent your book or move on. Writer Advice’s Scintillating Starts Opportunity is your chance to show how effectively you can grab and hold your readers and get feedback on what

Fall 2022 ~~ Hooked on Books

What books are following you? Where are they taking you?  Wrong Place Wrong Time Written by Gillian McAllister ISBN #: 978-0063252349 William Morrow  (August 2, 2022) Can You Prevent Murder After It’s Committed? Can anyone stop a murder that’s already happened, and what would it take to do that? Can a mother stop her teenage

Fall 2022 ~~ Interview

“I wanted to give back to books and authors after they’d carried me so far.”    ~~Zibby Owens They Persevered and So Did I Zibby Owens is a woman with energy, ambition, and a huge appreciation for writers. She started a blog and a podcast and then she wrote Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss,

Summer 2022 — Writing Advice

“…consider writing Op Eds and sending them to newspapers around the country.”   ~~B. Lynn Goodwin Want to contribute to the Writing Advice page? Send us your pitch through the contact button on the home page. We like pieces that are short and specific.  Do you have opinions to share? There’s so much going on

Summer 2022 — Marketing Advice

Editor’s note: If you want to make money from your writing, this article by Larry Henderson should help you gather a following and get paid on Instagram.  Do you have marketing tips to share with writers? Maybe ones from your personal experience as an author? We’re looking for short, clear pieces, broken into steps, and

Summer 2022–Hooked on Books

OPPORTUNITIES FROM THE EDITOR: I seem to be reading up a storm these days. How about you? Are you a reader? Do you ever review books? Want to share short reviews of 250-350 words on Writer Advice? If so, please query and we’ll take it from there. Take a look at our Guidelines and read

Summer 2022 — Contests & Markets

This page is updated approximately every 2-3 weeks. Check back mid-July and you’ll find more opportunities for upcoming months.  Seeking writing submissions? Click on the Contact button on the home page. We believe that writers are a community and will list any reasonable contest or opportunity.    July Deadlines Ruminate. The Waking‘s Flash Prose Prize. Fiction,

Summer 2022– Interviews

“If your readers don’t relate to your characters, your books will have no suspense and no jeopardy.” ~~Elly Griffiths Enticing Mystery Set During COVID-19 The Locked Room is the first book I’ve read in which our pandemic lockdown was an integral part of the plot. The book is the fourteenth in Griffith’s Ruth Galloway series,