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Why and How to Copyright Your Self-Published Book
Please welcome back special guest poster Kathryn Goldman. If you haven’t already grabbed a copy of her free Digital Artists Rip-Off Protection Report, make sure you don’t miss out on the chance to get this extremely helpful resource! ********************************************************************************************************************* Why and How to Copyright Your Self-Published Book By Kathryn Goldman The mantra chanted by people(…)
Sometimes Truth Is Stranger than Fantasy
You’ve likely heard the saying before that truth is stranger than fiction. Today my special guest poster, mystery author Kassandra Lamb, is putting her own spin on that saying to tell you why she thinks truth can be stranger than fantasy. She’s going to let us into the minds and motivations of serial killers. First(…)
Interstellar: How Much Would You Sacrifice to Save Humanity?
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Every time I hear a story of someone who died to spare the life of another—a first responder, a parent in place of a child, a soldier who took a bullet for a comrade—I wonder whether I would have done the same. I like to think I’d be altruistic if it(…)
The 12 Best Hashtags for Writers
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Hashtags are one of the best things about Twitter. (In case you’re brand new to Twitter, a hashtag is the # sign followed by a term.) Normally, your tweets are seen only by people who’re following you, but if you add a hashtag, everyone who’s watching that hashtag sees what you’ve(…)
How Authors Can Work Together to Achieve Success
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) The perception of self-publishing is that you’re working alone. And you are, but it doesn’t have to be that way all the time. In fact, I believe the future of successful self-publishing is in working together as allies with other authors rather than viewing them as your competition. Before I dive(…)
Deep POV – Using Your Pain to Become a Better Writer
I have another special guest post for you today. This time my good friend and writing partner Lisa Hall-Wilson is here to talk to you about deep POV and how you can channel your pain into becoming a better writer. In case you don’t know Lisa, let me introduce you a little bit. Lisa is(…)
6 Key Terms in Amazon’s KDP Contract — A Digest for Busy Writers
I’m pleased to bring you all a special guest post today. I recently connected with Kathryn Goldman, a lawyer and writer, and after seeing some of the other articles she’d written, I knew I wanted to invite her here to “speak” to all of you about some very important issues. She’ll be back next month(…)
March to a Bestseller 2: A One-Day Sale on Books for Authors
For today only, I’m dropping the price of Mastering Showing and Telling in Your Fiction to 99 cents. And I’m not the only one. Fifteen other authors are also dropping the price of their books to 99 cents. This is a treasure chest full of writerly goodness, so buy your copies before the sale ends.(…)
7 Essential Things to Know About Staying Safe on Twitter
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) For all the wonderful things that technology provides us, it also comes with new risks. We need to be smart about our social media use because Twitter won’t be fun and our platform building won’t be sustainable if we don’t know how to stay safe. So today I wanted to share(…)
7 Reasons Twitter Isn’t Building Your Author Platform
By Marcy Kennedy (@MarcyKennedy) Almost as soon as authors were told they should be on social media to build their platform, a counter-contingent of people started talking about how social media was a waste of time. They’d tell their stories of how they were on Twitter or Facebook or whatever the flavor of the month(…)