The world has gone mad and "censorship" is the word that is flitting around the romance community.
Just this week, Amazon's new policy has stripped any erotica titles of exposure and hides them into impossible-to-find corners of their store.
The world has gone mad and "censorship" is the word that is flitting around the romance community.
Just this week, Amazon's new policy has stripped any erotica titles of exposure and hides them into impossible-to-find corners of their store.
It recently occurred to me that I am essentially clueless about the ghostwriting profession. How does it work? What do these anonymous authors earn? And does it bother them when they see their novels succeeding with someone else's name plastered in glossy letters on the front cover?
If you've been in the newsletter game for more than a minute, you've probably run into the painful experience of wanting to add a newsletter subscriber pop-up box, or form, somewhere that only has integration with MailChimp. But guess what? There is a solution.
Want to have your pseudonym show up on your iBooks listing, instead of your real name? It's simple and easy, and I'm going to show you the steps:
You've got thirty minutes, right? Sure you do. We all do. Skip that sitcom and devote thirty minutes this week to your backlist. This is what you'll be doing...
For years, I put off creating a business plan for the year. I would write it on my to-do list, push it further down the list, then skip it all together. I needed, for me, a different solution.
Hello? Hello? Is anybody out there who leaves reviews anymore???
Finding reviewers for your book can feel a lot like combing the beach for your sunglasses...you may get lucky, but just as likely won't. But don't despair. There's an awesome service, designed just for you--and it's a lot cheaper than you think.
Quitting your job. Writing full time. Turning your writing into a career.
It's a dream for so many. It's a nightmare for others.
This afternoon, I was on Reedsy LIVE and shared three secrets of self-publishing success. Here's some additional references from that mini-workshop:
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and it's about to begin! Here's a checklist of everything you should do BEFORE you start writing Chapter 1.
I sat down with New York Times Bestselling Author Douglas E Richards and discussed plotting, research, and the madness of getting stuck in the midst of a novel.
Second only to the cover, your book's blurb (description) is one of the biggest factors in your sales. This video shares WHY your blurb is so important and HOW to easily create an awesome blurb.
Often authors, especially new authors, need a helping hand - someone to read their manuscript as they go and give critical feedback. A great solution for this need is to find a critique partner - another author in your genre, someone who you can trade off services with. You read their work-in-progress, and they read yours.
Author ... what? Yes. The elusive author brand, something that often gets forgotten in the confusion of releases, sales, promotions, and marketing. I wanted to be sure and share this important piece of the author puzzle and invited Rebel Farris to ATI, and asked her to breakdown branding for us.
Writer's block can hover over your shoulder, silent and deadly, until the weak moment in your manuscript when BAM! it can hit. But I've been paying attention to when mine decides to strike, and I've found that it is typically caused by a few major villains. Knock out those villains, and you might just avoid a blockage all-together.
