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Upcoming Writing Competitions

No, I am not talking about NaNoWriMo – even so you might be able to use some of what you already wrote for this yearly NaNoWriMo competition – if it fits into the following categories of the upcoming writing competitions. Your manuscript will certainly need to be edited, maybe even slightly re-written before you enter it into the contest. Best of all: these competitions require no entry fees!
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The Writer Short Story Contest – Deadline November30, 2016
Write a 2,000-word fictional short stor...

111 Tips to Get FREE Book Reviews

111 Tips to Get FREE Book Reviews
e-Book, covering the best strategies for getting lots of great reviews – including over 1,200 direct links (clickable links to each website!) to reviewers and book bloggers.

THE most valuable guideto gather book reviews

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Book Bloggers and Reviewer contact addresses can be found at the end of each chapter. And if you send us an email, using our contact form at 111Publishing.com, you will receive twicea year the latest reviewer contacts.
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Even More Benefits...

Page Count for eBooks and Print

Confusion among authors of digital and print books on several writer forums and discussion boards show that page count is a mystery to many authors.

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Question at the KBoards:
“I’m a little confused about the Amazon page count for Kindle. I published my first book with a word count of 19,000 and it’s listed as being 71 pages.
A year later I published a second book with a word count of 25,000 and it’s listed as being 65 pages. I thought the formula Amazon used for page count was approx. 250...

How to Get Your First 100K Twitter Followers

I am just helping a new author to navigate her way through the Twitter-sphere, and to find her first followers. Searching through my extensive archive,I came up this great info-graphic. QuickSprout, the creator of this helpful tool offers even a free 100-point checklist.
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Courtesy of: Quick Sprout

From running contests and writing guest posts to reaching out to influencers, you can use at least 10 different tactics to grow your follower count.

Avoiding Your Readers? Really?

Publishing is as much business as art. It can be tough to switch hats, but those I see succeeding, have found ways to do both things well. Or as I wrote once: Writing is an Art – Publishing is a Business!

An Author who had already two well-written books out, however, unfortunately with a vanity publisher, who did NOTHING to promote these wonderful books, contracted with us. Part of our agreement was that we fully market his new book, but that he has to have at least a small platform, e.g. s...

Interview With Multi-Book Author D.G. Kaye

Today’s Author Interview introduces prolific Canadian writer D.G. Kaye. Her memoirs are enchanting for a huge following, and we are happy to welcome her to our blog.
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Debbie, what inspired you to start writing?
Growing up in a dysfunctional family life inspired me to journal. Journaling gave me a place to vent my feelings, frustrations, and observations I wasn’t permitted to voice.

How would you describe your book to someone who has not yet read it?
P.S. I Forgive You was written as a sequ...

5 Authors Who Fought the Odds

5 Authors Who Fought the Odds and Lived their Passion. Traci Lawrence, an authorof tremendously encouraging and uplifting books and articles, wrote:

“Life experience and passion are necessary to make any kind of writing standing out to readers. The most famous authors today have meshed their life’s work, or their favorite hobbies with their writing. Clive Cussler, Dan Brown, John Grisham and Robin Cook are a few of the authors that have written to their passion by writing about the subjects...

Want to Sell More Books?

Regularly listed in the top 100 (and often top 50) bestselling authors on Amazon, Russell Blake is a thriller writer who has written twenty novels and who has mastered the art of great writingandgreat sales.

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Russel Blake gives his fellow writers great advice:

1) Pick one genre that’s popular and with which you are extremely familiar, and then write in that genre. Stick to it. Don’t hop around. It confuses your potential readers and muddies who you are in their minds, and will hurt your sal...

How to Create a Social Media Blitz

Social Media is meant for networking, not for advertising. However, sometimes there is an exemption, such as a book launch, pre-sale campaign, Amazon Free Days or a Kindle Countdown sales campaign, that you want to announce as often as possible to reach all your followers.

Here is how you can accomplish this without getting your posts or tweets kicked out due to spamming:
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1. Step: Connect Your Social Media Accounts

As more writers are engaged in Social Media and as more platforms they use,...

Finally Available: The Guide to Find Reviewers

Everything You Need to Know About the Topic “Book Reviews”

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More than 1,200 direct links to book reviewers – clickable links to each website! and 111tips and insider information will provide authors on 240 pages with all aspects of finding, following, and networking with reviewers and influential book bloggers.

Many important steps, such as researching which genre book reviewers prefer and how to...