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TWITTER TUESDAY: Favorite Author Chats (No. 4)

Today's focus is my favorite author chats on Twitter, the informal and the formal ones. These chats allow us writers to go from focusing inward on our current work-in-progress, to focusing outward...



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The 10 Steps to Becoming a Successful Indie Author

You want it, don't you?! I mean success as an author! What does that mean to you? To me, it means fame, fortune and giving my readers a satisfying and memorable experience that they want more of!



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VIDEO: "How To Instantly Brainstorm Any Idea In Minutes"

Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series.
I like this guys spunk and scrappiness. Cool tool, too!
A shout out to him:  Follow him on twitter: http://twitter.com/travelhead...



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Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers: #1

This is #1 in a series of articles on Spark Your Creativity Through the Numbers for Writers, a new weekly series designed to inspire you, motivate you and get you writing up a storm! Tips shared here...



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Author Entrepreneurs: We Walk Alone Together

I learned yesterday in an awesome Human Design session with Julien Adler just how much I'm blazing my own trail. Darn! I look out into the field of other artist entrepreneurs and wonder how I can be...



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Social Media Tip for Authors #8: Reciprocate

Many authors think that social media is like traditional advertising, all shouting at ya' . But it's not. Social media is social, which means authors succeed at it when we listen and give back. If...



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Thank God for Book Reviewers!

I used to be a book reviewer, back in the early days of my writing career. In fact, the second thing I ever got published was a review of Katherine Neville's The Eight. I still review books...



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Don't Use Twitter If…

Don't use Twitter is you don't want to have fun... Don't use Twitter if you don't want to connect with your readers. Don't use Twitter is you don't want to experiment with writing in 140 characters...



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INDIE AUTHORS: Top 2 Tips to Selling Books

Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors!
We want to sell books, right? But we're anxious about how to actually make that...



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VIDEO: Overcoming Arts True Test: Discipline

Enjoy our weekly video in our Sunday Videos for Authors series. While artists are known for following whims and dodging routine, the Irish painter Guggi insists that hard-work, structure, and a...



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