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July 14, 2017
Writers: Get Paid $200 Per Word? Maybe!
20K for 100 Words? Yes! The V International Flash Fiction Competition has such a generous prize on offer – US$20,000 for 100 words – the contest is extremely competitive. And there is no entry fee. The former Museum of Words contest attracted recently 35,609 entries from writers in 149 countries.
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The 5th Edition of the International Prize for Micro-Stories is organized by the César Egido Serrano Foundation. The Cesar Egido Serrano Foundation is based in Spain and is a private, not-f...
July 9, 2017
US$40,000 for a Short Story?
You are reading correctly!
The Sunday Times Short Story Award 2018: Entries Now Open for the World’s Richest Short Story Prize July 6, 2017
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Writers from around the world are invited to enter the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The winner will receive £30,000 (approx US$40,000), making this the most valuable prize in the world for a single short story.
The prize is for stories up to 6,000 words in length and there is no entry fee. Stories can be either unpublished or published....
July 6, 2017
Why is LinkedIn a Must for Writers?
LinkedIn is a social network with now over 500 million users. But LinkedIn is much more than a social site. It’s a community of professionals and is THE place, particularly if you are a writer or publisher. Almost 95 percent of all editors and journalists are on LinkedIn, which makes it easy for writers to connect with them.
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Don’t waste your time and money with useless press releases. Now you can connect with the right people on LinkedIn – if you have a carefully created and appealing b...
July 3, 2017
Benefiting From Free/Permanent Free Books?
My Question: Do you feel you are subsidizing the reading habits of a small portion of readers when offering your e-book(s) for free?
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There are lots of pro’s and con’s regarding free books. Authors are discussing this topic since years – just look at the KDP forums, this thread for example: “Do not give your book away free! EVER”. There are eight pages of opinions about this topic.
If you wrote only one book so far, it does not make sense at all to set it up for free. But after the fourt...
June 29, 2017
How You Can Grow Your Google+ Following
Saving time on Social Media, allows you to interact more with your followers and readers. But first, you need lots of followers to connect with you.
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The easiest way is to connect followers from several social media sites. So, no matter on which site your followers are, they will find your posts. Some of the best social media sites to blog are LinkedIn and Google+. Start to grow your presence on GooglePlus, this social media giant is as important as ever. Remember: Everything you post h...
June 27, 2017
Why Should You Be Your Own Publisher?
What you can do to become a publisher, without any contracting with a corporation, and how you can publish on your own terms.
It is not theory: I began as a publisher of books and an aviation magazine almost 30 years ago (print) and still publish (print and digital) my own books and those of other authors.
But I also have seen many authors giving the rights to their fabulous work away for a pittance and now are trapped for their whole life in very unfavorable contracts. Or even worse: Some...
June 23, 2017
Shopping for Books: How to Save Money
Amazon Free Bestsellers – Top 100 Free
For example:
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store/zgbs/digital-text/154606011
Mark the page on your computer and find new offers every day. You can choose between fiction and non-fiction, but often fiction books are scattered between non-fiction.
Students (no age restriction) can get Amazon Prime for half the price and it allows to get it via Amazon’s quick shipping system or free shipping. In most cases, Amazon has the best prices for b...
June 19, 2017
Ebook Conversion vs. Ebook Formatting
Have you ever been wondering why it is possible to get a free ebook version from your online book distributor? Or seen people offering to convert your novel manuscript into an ebook for $30 or $50?
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While $30 or $50 are almost expensive for just clicking a button to import the (pre-formatted) manuscript, fill in a form with details about the book – such as title, author name, and retail price – click another button to add any required companion files to the project, then clicking one last...
June 16, 2017
Alternative to ACX for Your Audio-Book
Thinking about transforming your print book or e-book into audio? Draft2Digital e-book distributor partners with FindawayVoices to provide an alternative to ACX. Starting July 18, 2017, you will be able to quickly and easily start the audiobook production process, right from your D2D publication page.
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Once your eBook is successfully published with at least one of D2D’s distribution channels, you can start creating your audiobook with FindawayVoices, with full support from the Voices tea...
June 14, 2017
AMAZON: Word Doc templates for POD Books
Nate Hoffelder posted recently on his popular blog: “When Amazon first launched KDP Print in beta last year, it asked publishers and authors to trust that Amazon could take any e-book and turn it into a good-looking POD book.”
Amazon has posted Word Doc templates for making better POD books at Kindle (platform) POD, which authors can use to format their manuscripts.
The templates come in various standard print sizes ranging from the equivalent of a paperback to a college textbook. They are...
