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How to Get the Story Out of Your Head and Onto the Page – a Lesson on Shaking Off the Burden of Knowledge
Are you getting the story out of your head and onto the page in your opening chapter? Here’s how to recognize and shake off the burden of knowledge.
The Keyboards of Our Lives
I've been thinking about keyboards lately, you'll see why in a minute. The keyboard is a pretty amazing thing. Invented in the late 19th century along with the mechanism to imprint "type-writing" onto paper, keyboards first appeared as the operational end of the...
This Week in the Blogs, July 2 – 8, 2016
Blogs for Self-Publishers, July 2 – 8, 2016 including Frances Caballo, Wendy Jones, Melissa Bowersock, Shari Stauch and Anne R. Allen
The Gearbox Method of Book Publishing
Jurgen Appelo shares his writing strategy, the Gearbox Method of Publishing, which consists of a sequence of distinct short-term objectives and feedback cycles.
Independence, 2016
It’s July 4th in the United States and we’re celebrating the "big 240," the 240th anniversary of our founding, a time for midsummer barbecues, family gatherings, parades down main street and a day off from daily work. Good time to go to the beach! We call it...
This Week in the Blogs, June 25 – July 1, 2016
Blogs for Self-Publishers, June 25 – July 1, 2016 including RJ Crayton, Frances Caballo, Lorna Sixsmith, Kirsten Oliphant and Sabrina Ricci
Fiction Writers: A Simple Approach to Build a Better Email List
Fiction authors know that email marketing is one of the best ways to cultivate a readership. This simple and effective approach offers surprising benefits.
Are Your Readers Getting Digital Fatigue … and, Are You?
e-Book sale indicate people are switching back to physical books because of digital fatigue so what does that mean for authors today?
Brexit: Twilight of the Experts?
Populism is becoming a powerful force, as we saw in last week's referendum in the U.K. that led the British to vote to exit from the European Union. This way of thinking maintains that good, wholesome people are being mistreated by a small circle of corporate,...
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #69
Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #69 including
