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Wish I would have found this great infographic months ago…

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Food for Thought …

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Checking out Sarah’s Reviews’son Goodreads and her website, I looked a little bit closer at her favorite authors list. As an avid reader, a very fair reviewer and book blogger she read many titles of these prolific writers. Note: these authors wrote between 18, in words: eighteen and 98, in words: ninety-eight! books, and they are true role models to follow for anyone who complains that their first book is not a bestseller…

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Jim Butcher
author of 98 books, including Storm Front
Last boo...

5 Benefits of Beta Reading for Your Book

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The Benefits of Beta Readers
by Traci Lawrence

I grew up in Southern California, USA. Obviously, there’s a surfing culture in that area. I wasn’t a part of it. I went to the beach every so often, but I didn’t surf. I know little about the following:

Advisability of dry suits versus wet suits Location of rip tides and tidal pools Popularity of the specific beach (Is it so crowded it’s hard to find enough space to surf?) The effect of low tides and high tides on the sport Species of sea c...

MUST READ for Authors to Avoid Pitfalls

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Writing is an art.
Publishing is a business.

If you want to sell your book(s) and not just write for your own fun, better get a thorough understanding of the publishing business and what to look out for when making decisions how to get your book to readers.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch wrote a fantastic blog – a warning to all authors, who are thinking about having a service provider (who call themselves publisher) to handle e-book formatting and posting the e-book to all online retailers – for...

How to Build Your Author Platform

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“What’s Your Author’ Platform”? THE famous question you will be asked by agents and publishers before they even consider to read your query or manuscript. As they spend almost all of their marketing dollars for bestseller authors, publishing houses nowadays expect authors to do their own book marketing.

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This question is also to ensure, that the author brings his or her own audience and lots of potential readers and book buyers. Agents and publishers want to see lots of followers and...

15 Important Questions Before Writing

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“Artists and Writers starve not because they aren’t talented – but because they often have no idea how to make money,” explainsEditor Mike Zimmerman in an article at Success.com.

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Everyone of my publishing and book marketing clients getsa questionnaire about their book(s), their social media presence, book distribution etc., but also about their plans concerning the book marketing. From their answers I can see how much (or few) they thought about their readership and the purpose of thei...

SAMURAI ROAD by Lawrence Winkler

Don’t miss 600+ pages of insights into Japan and its people:
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Most remote islands of the imagination conjure up paradise. Japan is an archipelago of puzzlement. From the sands that forged their swords and serenity, they traveled a Samurai Road of temples and shrines, feudal fortresses, and flowing mountain streams of wasabi. On sashimi and soy sauce, and green tea over rice, they lived a thousand years of pathos, under cherry blossoms and ephemeral moonlight, in Zen gardens and futon drea...

Pre-Order now SAMURAI ROAD by Lawrence Winkler

Don’t miss 600+ pages of insights into Japan and its people:
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Most remote islands of the imagination conjure up paradise. Japan is an archipelago of puzzlement. From the sands that forged their swords and serenity, they traveled a Samurai Road of temples and shrines, feudal fortresses, and flowing mountain streams of wasabi. On sashimi and soy sauce, and green tea over rice, they lived a thousand years of pathos, under cherry blossoms and ephemeral moonlight, in Zen gardens and futon drea...

How to Benefit from a Google-Twitter Partnership

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According to Pew research, 19 percent of the U.S. adult population uses Twitter – and 46 percent of Twitter users visited the site daily. Fine, but compared with Facebook for example, it’s the smallest market share of the top five social media sites. The more visitors Twitter gets, the better, as it is the quintessential real-time news feed: user generated, conversational, hash-tagged, and global. They will see higher ad revenue, more signups, and more engagement when co-operating with G...