We’ve all heard about an online book tour, also often referred to as a book blog tour. They’re a great book promotion tool (if done right) and can really enhance the exposure for your book with readers connected to these blogs. But where do you start? Let’s dig in! Different Types of Online Book Tours […]
For those of you that follow my blog, you may remember that my family and I took a fantastic, once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy this past summer. I wrote an eight part series on the trip soon after we returned to the US. You can find that series HERE. Knowing that this trip would be extra special
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Here is the updated list for March & April 2019 writing submissions. I try to find submissions and contests with no fee (or on the cheaper side at least), which is surprisingly hard. As always, if you know any places that run contests and accept general submissions that are not on my list, please let
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The first draft is something everyone seems to dread. How do you start? How long will it take? The blank page can really take a toll on you and your creativity. But what exactly is the first draft? What does it mean? There’s a lot more to first drafts than we give them credit for.
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BY DAVID KUDLER ON MARCH 7, 2019 LEAVE A COMMENT By David Kudler Garamond. Helvetica. Times. Comic Sans. Everyone loves fonts, right?[i] Well, not everyone — but we sure spend a lot of time and energy making sure that we find just the right ones for our print books. And we want our ebooks to look just as good,
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Julie Glover For those of us who want to make a living writing, we often get bogged down by all we need to learn about craft, all we need to know about publishing, and all we need to do about marketing. While I’m completely in favor of doing All The Things to create wonderful stories and
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by Tasha Seegmiller Last month, I attended my first residency for an MFA in Writing from Pacific University. While there was some trepidation about going back to school at 40, and a bit about how the workload is all going to fit into my life, the main nervousness was surrounding how the instructors and members
Writing is a creative activity and it takes a lot of thought, hard work, and most of all, imagination. But there are a lot of things we do in life that prepare us or aid us in other things. Writing is one of those things. With the research and growing we do as writers and
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by Lisa Hall-Wilson Many of us love to create female characters who are in charge. They are the boss, the leader, the take-charge and kick ass types who keep everything from the local PTA to an entire country running just the way they like it. They don’t ask permission, they act. The alpha female character often
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When it comes to writing, we all have our routines and special ways of doing things. Writing short stories is no different. I go about writing a novel a certain way and when it comes to writing short stories, I have a slightly different approach. The Idea Ideas are all around us, but when it
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