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April 19, 2014
111 Tips to Market Your Book For Free – Part 2
Originally posted on Savvy Writers & e-Books online:
In my first blog post about the upcoming e-book “111 Tips How to Market Your Book For Free” we looked at all the pre-publishing book marketing – something you can do, before you even start with the manuscript. Let’s assume you have been very busy writing your book, blogging and making lots of contacts. Now you just finished your book. See what you can do before the big book launch:
ONCE YOU FINISHED YOUR BOOK
Refine your book, edit, edit and edit some more
Have an Editor correct and refine your manuscript
Get your ISBN number and register your copyright
Search for a graphic designer and e-book formatter
Let your books interior design
Create a brilliant book cover- that’s what people see first
Choose the right category / genre and sub-genre for your book
Get a W-7 Form (if not USA taxed)
Let your e-book professionally convert and upload
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April 16, 2014
UNEXPECTED – A short story coming soon from Aja with Roy Glenn
Originally posted on Aja:
Unexpected
Maya Taylor has been left stung by the arrow of love one too many times for her liking. Swearing off heartache she decides that the staid and boring life is just fine for her. But a well-meaning friend points out that she isn’t really living at all and helps Maya embark on a journey with a new attitude. This leads to a chance encounter with a handsome gentleman that is all about living in the moment.
Roman Newsome has constantly been on the search for the perfect woman. She needs to look beautiful, have something to talk about other than herself and be able to keep up with his prowess in bed. But having found out that most women pretend to have it all only to reveal their true unappealing colors, he’s decided the perfect woman must not exist. Until he meets Maya. . .
Can these two fundamentally…
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My Decision to begin Living Healthy
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Many of you might know that three weeks ago, I decided to do something many considered drastic to get healthy. This process began about a year and a half ago with a full six hour seminar, a psych eval, cardiac release, physician release, meet with the surgeon twice with my spouse, two meetings with the nutritionist a EGD and cardiac stress test. All of this to have them cut out 2/3rds of my stomach. Why not have surgery when my insurance covered 90%? And a lot of states with medicaid are now also paying for it. And they should, the benefits are amazing. Loss of Hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, and other disease processes that are limiting to a person go away within a few months.
I feel I need to add, this has nothing to do for self confidence or sex drive our outward appearance for me…but has everything do…
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How writing fiction helps us confront the uncertainties of life
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
None of us knows what the future holds. Writing fiction is one way to grow more comfortable with the uncertainties of life.
One of the most common arguments against reading fiction (and especially writing it!) that you’ll hear goes something like this:
What is the point? Isn’t the real world interesting enough?
Fiction is just escapism. Live your life.
Fiction has no real value. It’s pure distraction from real problems and issues.
Now, I don’t think any writer (or person who understands the value and importance of story to human nature and to human beings) thinks that we should lose ourselves completely in fiction and devote our lives entirely to it.
That said, it saddens me when people make comments like those above. Fiction does SO MUCH for us as people who live and move and contribute to the real world.
For one, writing increases our capacity to empathize…
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April 13, 2014
Why “Balance” in Fiction Rarely Means a 50/50 Split
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
Balance in creative writing has been the theme of my last few posts, and today I wanted to start one more discussion about balance. In particular, I wanted to explore how in fiction “balance” between two things doesn’t necessarily mean a 50/50 or 33/33/33 split between two or three aspects of a novel.
It also doesn’t mean the same thing from author to author, from genre to genre, or even from one person’s novel to the next one she writes.
Muddying the picture even more is the fact that all the aspects of fiction we try to balance: “action” with “depth,” “world-building” with “story” (at least in my genre of fantasy) are extremely wide-ranging in terms of definition.
THE IMPORTANCE OF TARGET AUDIENCE
What I consider exciting, gripping action might not be enough to keep someone else’s attention. What I consider sweet and romantic about my novels will definitely not…
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April 9, 2014
Creative Writing: The great balancing act of crafting fiction
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
I have been thinking a lot about balance in fiction: about how often good writing boils down to keeping between two extremes, or simply not saying something too emphatically or too often.
On that note, I’d like to write today about balance, and some of the different things we writers are always trying to balance. There’s a LOT of balancing going on…. and that’s perfectly normal.
As writers, we can feel disconcerted or doubtful when we stop to consider how many things we’re actually juggling at the same time. But it’s nothing to freak out over or to cause us to lose confidence.
This epic act of balancing is why writers do multiple editing passes. We can always read through and get one aspect of balancing right before we concentrate on others. This can prevent us feeling overwhelmed and help us achieve, in the end, as close to the…
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April 6, 2014
AUTHORS: on balancing personal struggles with action in creative writing
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
My last post about 5 psychological struggles that can enhance good plot was one of my best received ever; because of that, I wanted to follow up with a reflection on how those useful, real, and powerful personal demons characters face can turn against an author.
EMOTIONAL STRUGGLE AND BALANCE
It’s true that our characters might struggle for redemption, or to forgive someone. We all find it difficult to let go of the past, even when we know that letting go and leaving the past behind will be to our benefit. None of us likes to face our fears, or make a difficult choice between two equally wonderful or terrible options. None of us LIKES to sacrifice.
And yet we do these things, because we know that’s what life is truly about: change, and growth. We sacrifice for those we love because love means putting others first. Our characters will…
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March 27, 2014
13 Ways You Know You’re Dating A Grown-Ass Man
Originally posted on Thought Catalog:
1. You know where you stand. You are his girlfriend or you are a girl he’s dating but either way he’s not scared to define it. He’s not afraid that a girl will cry and run away if she doesn’t hear what she wants to, he wants a mature woman because he is a mature man.
2. You don’t have to prod him to become a real adult. He’s self motivated to improve on his own. If there’s an area of his life that needs improvement, he’s working on it long before you notice it.
3. Texting with him is peaceful. Sometimes you have conversations. Sometimes you make plans. But it’s never a power struggle of who initiates and who texts lasts. It’s not fishing for compliments or security. It’s simply a short form of communication.
4. He calls his mom. You don’t need to tell him to…
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March 24, 2014
Speechless
Originally posted on Nia Forrester:
I’m not often without words, but I was when I saw this book trailer made by one of my best reader-friends, Deloris and posted on my wall! Loved it so much I had to share.
Click on the image below to see an AMAZING homage to ‘Mistress’ and ‘Wife’, two books I was surprised to enjoy writing as much as I did.
Enjoy!
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Delaney Talks: A Blog Stop with the Author of ‘The Wrong Man’
Excellent!
Originally posted on tia kelly:
Hi Delaney! Thank you for stopping by to chat! I know everyone is anxious to find out what’s next for you after book two in the Love Unexpected series - The Wrong Man. So let’s get to it!
I tend to talk a lot (and sometimes over people so throw a book at my head if I get out of hand), but right now I would love if you could tell us who you are rather than if I come up with some big introduction. (Which I have no problem doing… but then I would be a blog hog. And no one likes a blog hog! LOL)
D: Wait, you can’t be a blog hog, even on your own blog? Good to know. (*takes note*)
I’m a daughter, a sister, and an aunt. I’m the middle child of three and no, I don’t have the dreaded middle child syndrome.…
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