Are you writing to trending news? Alec Baldwin and RUST
Trending. And while some say you shouldn’t, I say why not? Today’s blog post is brought to you by me, a trending blog star. I go out and find trending stories for you and post about them here, and make them applicable to a writer/author and the life we all lead. Does that sound like something you are up for? Then, go to the link at the top of the page and join the Zanies. These are the people who get my newsletter, and also, the big news that is trending with me, FIRST. Before social media, before the blog,
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Ebook Series: PDF fun
info about your PDF is coming but first… It has been said that a writer should own their own content. That means you should have it residing on YOUR own machine, not a server somewhere in the ether. The reason being that if you don’t own your own stuff, that other place could go out of business and you could lose your data. This has happened to me. The chances of it happening to a behemoth like Amazon is slight, however. But it COULD technically happen. So, having said that, I am going to tout the prospect of putting your
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Cheap things to help sell your book
Cheap things to help sell your book or better known as cheap actions to take to get your book noticed. Yeah, so everyone is an author these days because everyone can self publish their work so easily with what Amazon offers. What used to be a constant stream of conversation in writing circles “how to get my work published” has now turned over to a “how to sell more books”. And with good reason, too. There are a lot of books out there, folks. According to Quora from a year ago, this is the breakdown : Amazon currently lists 32.8
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When does a book need a prologue?
Writers are a pretty predictable bunch. We sit down, create a story, maybe outline or do a plot plan. Then we write. And sometimes the first things out of our fingers is a prologue. Or a flashback. You know, a “before there was this, there was THIS” sort of thing. Those types of beginnings are okay. They are sometimes required. But you should know that most agents hate them. Most editors/publishers and other of that ilk hate them too. They hates them my preciousssss. Well, why? Because as a general rule, this stuff is backstory. It’s something for you as
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