So I've been involved in a secret project for the last month or so and today I can finally announce it! So What's Happening? The Descent: Kobo's Inferno Contest Dante's Inferno hopefully needs no …
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London Book Fair RoundUp 2013: An Author’s Perspective
Last year at the London Book Fair 2012, I felt like authors were on the periphery and barely acknowledged. We skulked around the edges at some of the learning seminars but the main event was very …
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Microdomination: Branding, Content Marketing And Social Media With Trevor Young
Authors are becoming entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs are becoming authors and both need to sort out their branding, content management and social media. We cover all that and more in today's …
The Art of Character: The Five Cornerstones of Dramatic Characterization
Creating believable and resonant characters is one of the great challenges of the fiction author. The concept of character has also become more important in narrative non-fiction and memoir, and …
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Book Marketing Using Paid Promotion: Targeted Email Lists
One of the keys to promotion is building an email list of fans who like your books. This is a non-negotiable in terms of book marketing, but building that list often takes a long time! Blogging, …
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Writing Fiction. What Is Urban Fantasy Anyway?
Many authors don't want to categorize their writing, but the best way to immediately turn on (or turn off) a new reader is to relate your book to something they already like. The easiest way is to …
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