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10 Signs You’ve Hired The Wrong Editor For Your Book

You’ve just reread your final draft for the 6,983rd time.

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in Editing, Self-publishing | 763 Words

“At First Bite”: Is It Worth It to Follow Literary Trends?

Once upon a time, Western society as a whole was flushed with anticipation for the END OF THE WORLD.

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in Agents, Audience, Literary Trends, Pub. Industry, Storytelling, Writing | 580 Words

The Do’s and Don’ts of Using Twitter to Market Your Book

The great thing about Twitter is that it doesn’t take a lot of time to do it right.

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in Book Marketing, Planning, Social Media, Technology, Twitter | 715 Words

5 Mistakes Authors Make That Ruin Book Marketing

You’ve gone through the painful and enlightening process of editing, proofreading, and other general wordsmithing (new word!).

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in Audience, Book Launch, Book Marketing, Motivational, Pitching, Planning, Self-publishing | 863 Words

The Fifty Shades of Grey Effect: The Guilty-Pleasure Novel

In looking at some of the most popular books in the past few years, most have clearly not been NGANs (“next great American novels”).

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in Audience, eBooks, Pub. Industry, Storytelling | 925 Words

World Book Night – What Can an Indie Author Do?

This guest post is by Clare Wilson, author of The Long Staff   As a small-fry author with an independent publisher, you need to be creative when it comes to book promotion.

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in Book Launch, Book Marketing, eBooks, Guest Post | 704 Words

Writing the Ten-Minute Blog

Yes, this blog post is being written for purely selfish reasons.

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in Blogging | 275 Words

The 5 Principles to Book Reviews and Endorsements

In the book world, reviews and endorsements are extremely important… Both official reviews and unofficial consumer reviews are vital to a book’s launch into the market.

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in Audience, Pitching, Planning, Pub. Industry, Query Letter, Reviews | 682 Words

Printing Galleys 101

To Galley or Not to Galley?

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in Book Marketing, Planning | 850 Words

11 Powerful Networking Groups for Authors

We live in one of the best cities for networking–Minneapolis.

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in Book Marketing, Speaking | 896 Words

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