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Coming up with a good plot for your story is one of the most essential things you can do for your book. Of course there’s other things too, like developing a good character, world building, and so on, but without plot, your book or film is dead on arrival. Coming up with a good story

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Last time, we talked all about the costs involved in writing and finishing your book. If you missed that article, check it out, it goes into the financial costs of self-publishing your own book. Today though, we have the monumental task of breaking down the biggest problem of all, marketing your book. Because let’s face

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If you’ve been following my other posts, you should have a pretty good idea of my process for writing and publishing a book. That’s all good to know, even if you have a process that differs from mine. What you don’t know yet, is how the financial side of all this works out, because let’s

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I used to read, a lot. Eventually, life started to get in the way of my pleasure reading. I’d still read to learn in the evenings, but reading for entertainment sake got harder as the years went on. First there was work, then family, then more family and more work. Did I mention homeownership? Maintaining

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Way to go, you wrote your first book, published it, maybe. What next? There’s a couple of things. Marketing is one option, but it’s not the most important option.  What about sales? How do we get money for our book if we’re not marketing it?  Well, sales are nice, but they aren’t the main goal

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So you’ve received only form letters, telling you that either the agent is not accepting new clients, or that the publisher is not interested in your novel at this time. What a bummer.  Maybe you’ve simply gotten overwhelmed with the amount of work involved in sending out all those inquiries to the publishing gatekeepers, and

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It’s time to publish your book. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, all your life. Well, maybe not all your life, but surely over the last several months you’ve been looking forward to this day.  Only problem is, you don’t know how to publish it. Do you go the traditional route, of searching…

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Did you finally finish your first book? Congratulations. There is something incredibly satisfying about finishing your novel. You might even think the hard part is over. If that is what you’re thinking, then I’m sorry, but its time to burst that thought bubble. You have just stepped into the realm of editing. When I first…

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So, you’ve decided to write your first novel? Congrats. I don’t know what your motivations are, but it doesn’t matter. Everyone seems to have that one story in the back of their heads that they would like to write someday. I can’t tell you how many times someone has told me something like this. But…

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It seems like everyone has a story to tell. I did, though I didn’t know it at the time. Maybe you do, and you’re trying to figure out how to get started. Maybe you don’t, but you’ve read some books and thought, “Gee, I could do as good or better.” But where do you start?…

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