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September 21, 2016
What Is WattPad? With a Bonus Review
Originally posted on The Nerdy Book blog:
Have you ever heard of WattPad or even experienced it? Well if you havent, you must! WattPad is a writing community in which users are able to post articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems, either online or through the mobile app. This gives people the chance to have…
Have you ever heard of WattPad or even experienced it? Well if you havent, you must! WattPad is a writing community in which users are able to post articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems, either online or through the mobile app. This gives people the chance to have…
August 18, 2016
How Data Is Fueling the Future of the Publishing Industry
Originally posted on BusinessWorld:
How Data Is Fueling the Future of the Publishing Industry PopSugar is using visual and interactive analytics to create viral and engaging content. PopSugar and its digital shopping platform ShopStyle combines a unique blend of content and commerce. Together these brands are attracting over 100 million monthly visitors worldwide. Channeling the phenomenal success of Snapchat has also…
How Data Is Fueling the Future of the Publishing Industry PopSugar is using visual and interactive analytics to create viral and engaging content. PopSugar and its digital shopping platform ShopStyle combines a unique blend of content and commerce. Together these brands are attracting over 100 million monthly visitors worldwide. Channeling the phenomenal success of Snapchat has also…
August 17, 2016
4 Tips to Create Powerful Voices for your Characters
Originally posted on WritingMad:
It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, a short or a full-length novel, voice is the lifeblood of your work. You might have all the elements of a great story – a dazzling twist, an arc to rival a rainbow – but if you haven’t got a voice that mesmerises, your story will be…
It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, a short or a full-length novel, voice is the lifeblood of your work. You might have all the elements of a great story – a dazzling twist, an arc to rival a rainbow – but if you haven’t got a voice that mesmerises, your story will be…
August 7, 2016
Book Review: The Girl Who Watched Over Dreams by Jeff Russell
Life for Kat (Doctor Katrina Hammond) is not turning out the way she envisioned. Despite her misgivings, she agrees that her mother going into E.D.E.N.’s perpetual sleep program is the best choice for her mother, who is suffering from chronic rheumatoid arthritis. Engulfed with sorrow over her loss of her mother, plagued by doubts about […]
August 2, 2016
An Interview and a Question: What Does it Take to Make You Feel Like an Author?
A strange thing happened on the way to the blog. I received an email out of the blue from someone I’ve never heard of. That’s not so strange in itself; I get enough spam to feed a spambot until it vomits flowery poetry. What was strange is that it was a request for an […]
Tips on writing a (crime) novel #1
Originally posted on Writing Ourselves Well:
You want to write a (crime) novel? But don’t know where to start? Let me suggest two concepts: to write a novel, you have to start writing; and to write a novel, you have to have some kind of routine. If you’re serious about writing a novel don’t wait…
You want to write a (crime) novel? But don’t know where to start? Let me suggest two concepts: to write a novel, you have to start writing; and to write a novel, you have to have some kind of routine. If you’re serious about writing a novel don’t wait…
July 29, 2016
Character Analysis: Heroines Part 1
Originally posted on Be There Dragons:
As I have been reading and posting reviews, I thought it would be a good idea to take Mariah Avix’s advice and do a bit more thinking about what I like and what I don’t like. To keep this discussion within the confines of reasonable, I thought I would break it…
As I have been reading and posting reviews, I thought it would be a good idea to take Mariah Avix’s advice and do a bit more thinking about what I like and what I don’t like. To keep this discussion within the confines of reasonable, I thought I would break it…
July 25, 2016
How Amazon’s crackdown on scammers is impacting indie authors
This article on Amazon and TOC placenent is from March, but still worth knowing. https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/2016... under: Uncategorized
July 15, 2016
Find Your Audience: Why Your Company Can Succeed Even If 85% Of People Ignore You
Originally posted on Vincent Carlos:
I wrote this post originally for LinkedIn’s marketing and advertising section — When it comes to being a mass market success, the goal is not to market to everyone. Instead, the goal is to market to a small group of people who share a similar worldview as yours. Typically however, marketers spend all…
I wrote this post originally for LinkedIn’s marketing and advertising section — When it comes to being a mass market success, the goal is not to market to everyone. Instead, the goal is to market to a small group of people who share a similar worldview as yours. Typically however, marketers spend all…
June 30, 2016
Creating An Author Website
Originally posted on MDellert-dot-Com:
With the current incarnation of my blog approaching its first big birthday, I recently took a survey of my readership to better understand who’s following me, how I’ve been doing, and what folks expect of me, now that I’m a minor quasi-celebrity with two (soon three) books under my belt, more…
With the current incarnation of my blog approaching its first big birthday, I recently took a survey of my readership to better understand who’s following me, how I’ve been doing, and what folks expect of me, now that I’m a minor quasi-celebrity with two (soon three) books under my belt, more…
