Category Tools and tips
#Amazon amalgamates US & UK reviews?
This week, while checking something on my Amazon UK book page for THE PRINCE’S MAN, I got a shock. Instead of the 49 reviews it’s had for some time now, suddenly it was showing 77! I know it’s selling steadily, but that’s a lot of new reviews all of a sudden, and I was eager […]
HONORING HONORIFICS
Originally posted on Fantasy Author's Handbook:
Let’s take this week to go after a certain copy editing bugaboo that I have found extremely common in both fantasy and science fiction. It’s another of those seemingly impenetrable rules governing the proper use of an initial cap. An initial cap is when the first letter of…
How to write attention grabbing sentences: active vs passive construction #amwriting
With the huge number of novels available these days, it’s important to grab your readers’ attention immediately or they may never read past the sample pages Amazon offers. There’s lots of advice out there on writing those all-important opening lines – start with action, suggest something unusual, be controversial etc. – but I want to […]
Listening to Your WIP – #WritingTip #amwriting
Originally posted on The Write Stuff:
We’ve talked about this in the past, but as I avail myself of the process more and more, I now wonder how I wrote anything without stopping to hear my words now and then. At the very least, how did I dare submit my revised document to an editor,…
Design Your Own Logo In Seconds!
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
As many of you know, in my day job I work as a web developer. Most of my skills I’ve picked up in the past 25 years of web design, from Internet marketing to social media, have proven useful once I started writing. One of them was logo design:…
How the Seven-Point Story Structure Can Help Your Writing
Originally posted on A Writer's Path:
? I still remember the day I started writing my first novel. I felt a little lost. I knew the basic concept of the story I wanted to tell, but the endless sea of possibilities on how to get there was overwhelming. I kept wondering if there was…
Do WOMEN write better than MEN? Survey by grammerly.com, #grammar checker #writing
Men versus Women Who are the better writers? And the survey says: This survey was conducted by grammarly.com As well as their service, check out their many educational sites: Grammarly on Facebook Grammarly on Twitter Grammarly on Google+ Grammarly on Pinterest Grammarly on LinkedIn Grammarly on Wikipedia And remember these important writing rules:
Why not join me in The Book Marketing Challenge?
The Book Marketing Challenge One of the biggest challenges to authors is that of MARKETING. We can write the greatest book, have a fabulous cover, and yet still not find readers. Even when our work is traditionally published, as my equestrian books are, unless the author is a household name, there is little or no marketing budget, […]
Have you discovered eBookSoda yet? Curated titles for readers.
Another great reader site for readers, that takes only books with above a 3.5* rating, and at least 8 reviews, so you are assured of quality, plus when you sign up you specify which genres you are interested in, so you are only offered books tailored to your taste. Take a look at: www.ebooksoda.com The […]
