BY Aaron Michael Ritchey So I’ve been in critique groups for nine years now. That’s a whole lot of words being read by other people. You want the math? Oh yes, I know you do. So ten pages a week, times fifty-two ‘cause there are fifty-two weeks in a year, so that’s 520 pages a…
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An Author’s Guide to Utilizing Pinterest
By Colleen Oakes I love Pinterest. Pinterest is my JAM. I have 77 boards and counting. I find it so refreshing and fun, like a game plan for my life. It’s a place for ideas, for inspiration and for useful tips from everything from tacos to finishing your deck, hipster dressing to social media savvy. …
The Basics of List Building
By Liesa Malik Lists are everywhere—the to-do list, the project task list, and most of all, the illusion of the golden contact list. Screech! Breaks! Illusion? That’s right. Many people believe that you can purchase, rent, or find on-line great contact lists for the asking. Unfortunately, in the years I’ve been in marketing, I’ve only…
The Sane Writer: Social Media Containment
Every one of us is going to have bad days. We’re going to rant. People and pets are going to die. Jobs will be lost. Agents will turn out to be a bad idea, book contracts will go sour. Bad things will happen. Really good things will happen too, and some days it can start to seem like every writer in the world is luckier than you.
Adventures in Genre Writing: Lesson 10 – Common Mistakes
By Jeanne C. Stein We’ve now covered the nuts and bolts of writing genre fiction. In the last two lessons, we’ll move on to the world of publishing. The first lesson is on ways a writer can sabotage her own career. We’ll divide this into three categories: Common Mistakes in Writing Common Mistakes in Submitting…