Knowing how and where to help is keyThe holidays are loud for readers — sales emails, bestseller lists, algorithm-pushed “must reads.”But for indie authors, the season is quieter. There’s no marketing...
Finding Your Next Story
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How Authors Unearth Ideas That StickSome story ideas arrive and stick in your brain like glue, gearing you up and ready to begin the story. Other ideas come to us but aren’t heavy enough to stick the...
What is it about?Lexi’s spent years surviving—two jobs, mounting bills, and a one-room apartment. Love isn’t even an option.Until Collin W. Radcliff walks in.He’s powerful, charming, and impossibly ou...
Where to Find ARC Readers
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And how to turn them into powerful reviewersBefore a book ever meets its first paying reader, it needs something far more crucial: social proof.Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) are how authors gather ear...
Knowing where to find readers and how to gain their attention is half the battleEvery successful book begins with two things: a compelling story and the right readers to love it.Too often, writers foc...
Having the right story, being a real person, and being visible in the right spaces will take you farSelling a book isn’t magic — though it can feel that way when everything clicks.Behind every breakou...
Holiday Book Marketing Ideas for Authors
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How to Boost Sales When Readers Are Ready to BuyThe holiday season has a way of turning even the busiest people into shoppers.Gift lists grow, inboxes overflow with deals, and readers suddenly have th...
Creating a plan of action before trying an author’s social media experiment is keySocial media is a powerful tool that allows us to connect with tons of readers.However, it’s also a fast-paced social...
The Author’s Long GameEveryone wants the viral moment.That one post that explodes on social media, the launch that suddenly changes everything, the book deal that makes the years of effort finally “wo...
ARC Teams, Street Teams, and Influencers
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Which One Do Authors Actually Need?When you’re preparing for a book launch, it can feel like you need an entire marketing department just to keep up with the buzzwords: Build an ARC team. Recruit a st...
How to Be Seen Without ShoutingAs an introverted author, you don’t need to transform into an influencer to be visible. You just need to build systems that let your voice — and your stories — do t...
Knowing how to effectively market your young adult book to the wide variety of audiences that read the genre is crucialPublishing your YA novel is a huge achievement — but getting it into the hands of...
How to Create a Movie in Your Readers' Minds
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How Adjectives and Adverbs Can Transform Writing from Telling to ShowingOne of the most common pieces of advice writers hear is: “Show, don’t tell.”But what does that actually mean? At its core,...
Narrative Points of View in Writing
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Seeing the 6 different variations of narrative allows writers to explore how to best tell their storyOne of the most powerful choices a writer makes is deciding who tells the story — and how.&nbs...
Matter of Time: A Short Story
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Time. I was always looking at the time these days. Time for where I had to be for the millions of things I had to do.It’s funny how your life never pans out how you think it will. How the dreams and a...
The Art of the Page-Turner
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Why Authors Choose Commercial Fiction and Its TradeoffsWalk into any bookstore, and the proof is right there: towers of thrillers, stacks of romance paperbacks with glossy covers, fantasy epics whose...