What is a story bundle? A story bundle is an electronic collection of stories that is available through a bundling website, usually for a limited period of time. The bundle may be sold as a complete set of stories, or there may be one price for a subset of the titles and another for the…
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This is NOT a Twitter How-To Blog
Copied verbatim from a recent email exchange: How did you get so many followers on Twitter? Well, it’s not that many—not really. I mean, it’s good to have followers but I see tons and tons of writers out there on Twitter with five times, ten times more than me. Tons! But how did you get…
Top Things That Scare the Words Out of Writers
Happy Halloween or Oct 31st, depending on your preference for the spooky. In honor, I’ve created a list of the things that go bump in the night and often the day for my writer friends. Feel free to add your own in the comments: There is less than 20 hours until NaNoWriMo starts Editors who change…
Platform Building At MPIBA
Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer’s Digest and current columnist for Publishers Weekly defines author platform in her wonderfully succinct way, as “an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach.” For many of us, the definition above may feel as if we’re in this platform building project all…
If Only I Had One More Hour a Day…
I’ve been struggling to juggle a lot of things lately which is stressful enough, but now I’m being barraged with NaNoRiMo e-mails, vacation requests, and holiday planning schedules. After Colorado Gold I had three requests for chapters, one of which turned in to a request for a full read. What do you think I want to…