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Helpful Insights for Self-Publishing Novelists
I moderated a panel at SXSW called The Self-Publishing Novelist, which included insights from 3 experienced experts: John Sundman. Read an interview with John here, Building an Enthusiastic Fan Base...
View Article18th Annual Self-Published Book Awards Winners – Inspirational
Inspirational First Place: Giovanna Pang Garcia Why Chinese Women Are Not Broke; Real Life Stories And Proven Keys For Success www.whychinesewomenarenotbroke.com Oceanside CA USA Honorable Mentions:...
View Article18th Annual Self-Published Book Awards Winners – Genre Fiction
Genre Fiction First Place: Alveric Yates The Lake-Isle Of Two Kings http://www.lake-isle.net/ Decatur GA USA Honorable Mention: Jack Sobel The Flower Man’s Daughter 2008905251 Jupiter FL USA James...
View Article18th Annual Self-Published Book Awards Winners – Children’s
Children’s First Place: Kathy M Miller Chippy Chipmunk Parties In The Garden New Ringgold PA USA Honorable Mention: Anita Reynolds Macarthur A Royal Little Pest Ajax Foreign Entry Ontario, Canada Julie...
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Mainstream Fiction First Place: Tanya Parker Mills The Reckoning Richland WA USA Honorable Mentions: Aloysius A Lutz And Richard J Lutz Jadwiga’s Crossing jadwigascrossing.com/page1.html New York NY...
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Should You Self-Publish After a Near-Miss?
Writers often ask if it’s wise or helpful to self-publish their work if they have “near-misses” with agents or publishers. There’s no one answer that works for everyone. But I’ll try to help you come...
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50 Simple Ways to Build Your Platform in 5 Minutes a Day
Writing rules. Self-promotion drools. Isn’t this how most writers think? But as long as you view your writing as art and your self-promotion efforts as the furthest thing from art, your chances of...
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A major buzzword floating around the publishing world these days is “platform.” There’s a lot of question about what it means and whether or not authors really need to have one. Writer’s Digest...
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Values and Message: Integrating Themes Into Your Nonfiction
The following is a guest post from the grand prize winner of our 21st Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards. For more information about the upcoming 22nd Self-Pub Awards, click here. Former...
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The Why and How of Self-Publishing
The following is a guest post from the grand prize winner of our 1st Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards (featured in InkWell in the May/June 2014 issue of Writer’s Digest). Judith...
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How an Indie Author Landed a Traditional Book Deal
Every journey leading to publication and success is different, but there is one thing each writer’s path has in common with every other writer’s path: hard work. It’s not easy to write a novel. Period....
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Should You Self-Publish After a Near-Miss?
Writers often ask if it’s wise or helpful to self-publish their work if they have “near-misses” with agents or publishers. There’s no one answer that works for everyone. But I’ll try to help you come...
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7 Surprising Things I Learned Self-Publishing a Book
You want to self-publish a book. After all, it’s so much easier than sending proposals to agents and publishers, you get to control the process, and you’ll keep more of your earnings. And all you have...
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What is Hybrid Publishing? Here Are 4 Things All Writers Should Know
Hybrid publishing is an emerging area that occupies the middle ground between traditional and self-publishing and therefore includes many different publishing models— basically anything that is not...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Indie Publishing
Let me be clear—I don’t take sides. I appreciate the self-published author, the author published by a small press, and the New York-published author. Because you know what? No matter what publishing...
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10 Things Every Writer Should Know About Amazon Publishing
In 2012, right before my third novel, Forgotten was released, my agent let me know that my US publisher, William Morrow, would not be picking up my fourth novel, Hidden. I was, to put it gently, upset....
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How to Create an Inspiring Work Space (for under $20)
Every writer deserves “a room of one’s own,” as Virginia Woolf famously put it. If space is at a premium in your life, though, it can be tough to claim your territory where you can explore your ideas...
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The Lie I Told Myself About Self-Publishing
Three years ago I officially began writing a book. That’s when the lie began. As my first draft grew to 50,000 words, the book changed from being a memoir based on my experiences as a fire eater to a...
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10 Rules of Writing a Novel
As you may have read while surreptitiously checking your tweet stream at a client meeting last week, a former advertising copywriter is among five Americans who made it onto the long list for a big,...
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The Copy Editing and Proofreading Checklist All Writers Need
Whether you are hired as a copy editor or a proofreader on a project or you’re revising your own work, you want to make sure you don’t miss anything. Here are 26 important items you should check when...
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