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5 Tips For Creating Characters Readers Can’t Wait to Come Back To

Creating unique characters is something every fiction author has to focus on because it can make the difference in writing…

Joanna Penn

Self-Printed 2.0: Self-Publishing And Marketing Tips With Catherine Ryan Howard

Authors who discover the power of self-publishing often turn into evangelists for the medium. I'm clearly one of those, and…

Joanna Penn

Lessons Learned From 1 Year As A Fulltime Author Entrepreneur

It's just over a year since I gave up my job as an IT contractor and became a full-time author-entrepreneur.…

Joanna Penn

Writing Thrillers And Adventures In Publishing With Boyd Morrison

Ebooks and self-publishing are pretty much mainstream these days but a few years ago they were relatively unknown. Boyd Morrison…

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Editing With The Kindle

Editing is one of those processes that can go on forever, and I must admit to being a little addicted…

Joanna Penn

How To Get Amazon’s Top Customer Reviewers To Review Your Book

In the last few weeks, there have been scandals about so-called sock puppet reviews, when authors have paid for fake…

Joanna Penn

How I Got A Literary Agent

Back in July, I signed with a New York agent, Rachel Ekstrom and then I explained the reasons why I…

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Build A Fulltime Writing Career Slowly With Lindsay Buroker

We have all heard the stories of the mega-successful indie authors who earn hundreds of thousands per month and who…

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Selling Literary Fiction With Terri Giuliano Long

Are writers of literary fiction finding the changes in publishing the hardest? The rise in ebooks seems to favor books…

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5 Lessons Learned From Writing 3 Novels

I'm currently writing my third novel, so this post is interesting to me as I have learned some similar things…

Joanna Penn