Writing Tip Wednesday: Switch – How to Change Things when Change is Hard
Today I’d like to let you know about a self-help book, Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard, by Chip and Dan Heath. It’s not specific to writing; it will, however, help you achieve your writing goals. You can add it to your Goodreads To-Read list. This book will help you in all […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: Report on my First Experience Using NetGalley
In 2019, I used NetGalley for the first time. NetGalley is a paid site used by independent authors and publishers to obtain more book reviews. Here, I’m reporting on my first use of NetGalley and the results. First, what is NetGalley? Authors and publishers can pay to list their books on the site. NetGalley […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: Finding Time to Write
Writing Tip Wednesday is back! If you participated in November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), you’re likely burned out. Indeed, the holiday season is a good time to rest the creative muse and take a break from feverishly writing, so that you can start again in January with renewed vigor. If you’re like me, you’re […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: NaNoWriMo is here!
For those who don’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo), when authors the world over hunker down and churn out a draft of an approximately 50,000-word manuscript. For this reason, for the rest of this month I’ll be suspending my Writing Tip Wednesday segment so that I can focus exclusively on #writing! This […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: The Best Way to get Book Reviews
It’s the bane of our existence, at least, for us authors. We need book reviews. After all, sites such as Bookbub won’t even consider our books for promotion unless we have a good number of reviews (at least ten to twenty). But how to get those reviews? First, definitely ask your friends to leave honest […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: A curated short list of FREE book promotion sites
Photo by Gregory Culmer on Unsplash Today I’m going to share with you a curated list of sites where you can promote your book for FREE. With the advent of self-publishing, a TON of service providers have popped up seeking to sell you all kinds of promotion services for your fiction and nonfiction books. These services include book […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: Elmore Leonard’s Rules on Writing
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash In last week’s post on Stephen King’s writing tips, I mentioned fiction author Elmore Leonard. Leonard was a prolific genre writer, including crime fiction, and was highly regarded as an expert in writing dialogue. He gave some great advice on writing technique. Here’s a summary of his tips. Never open a book […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: Tips from Stephen King
Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is more of a personal memoir than a treatise on writing. When you drill down into the book, however, you can obtain some great writing tips that you should keep in mind when working on your first draft. I’ve condensed some of the best tips for […]
Writing Tip Wednesdays: Reedsy – A phenomenal platform for writers
Today I want to tell you about Reedsy, a website chock full of great FREE resources for authors. On the Reedsy blog site, you will find a ton of helpful articles such as The Ultimate Guide to KDP: How to Succeed on Kindle Direct Publishing and The Best Free Book Cover Makers (and a Few Paid Ones). One […]
Welcome to Writing Tip Wednesdays!
Every Wednesday I’ll share with you the best writing and publishing tips I can find. I’m always researching how to improve my own writing and how to market my books. Starting now, every Wednesday I’ll send you my curated research, condensed, in one spot.For today: My Self-Publishing Primer is updated with important info about how […]