What are the themes of your writing life? Do you know? Sara
Letourneau explains how to find them in your writing. Will knowing about your
unique themes make you a better writer? This is a great read on an interesting topic.
This week Children’s authors in the U K were not happy.
Every year a range of books are made available for one pound for children. The
new line up for World Book day 2018 heavily features celebrity authors. Any
children’s bookseller can tell you that very few celebrities can write for
children. Are we dumbing down our kids literature on purpose?
I have reported over this year Amazon’s venture into brick
and mortar stores. First with their bookshops... or book showrooms as they seem
to be, then buying the chain of Whole Foods shops and now they are venturing
overseas. Can you see them in France?
David Gaughran has made it his mission to defend the
innocent writer from Author Solutions shady practices. A S has many names and
seems to be able to survive by changing names but not tactics. Lately David has been
turning his crusader eyes to the shady practices of Kindle Unlimited scammers.
What is the psychology of good cover design? Is it to fit in
or stand out? Damon, the man behind Damonza book covers tells all.
The next ALLi Indie Fringe conference is coming up in two
weeks. If you haven’t dropped in on the other two this year don’t miss this
one! It’s free. The Alli conferences are on around the time of the big Book
Fairs. With Frankfurt Book Fair coming up this Indie Fringe conference is on
Author Business. Check out the speakers they have lined up.
Some of the speakers at the Alli conference have writing
books in this years NaNoWriMo Storybundle which is available now. Every year I
point out this bundle of books going into National Novel Writing Month. October
is NaNoPrepMo. This years NaNo Storybundle is stuffed full of workbooks for
writers. For the cost of one book get 15 and there are some gems among them!
Chris Syme is pulling back on Facebook ads. Chris is a
marketing guru whom I’ve often linked to in my roundups. She has an interesting
article on why she is cutting back and the new strategy to be more effective
going forward. This is a bookmark post.
Another bookmark post with warnings is Chuck’s post on saggy
middles. If you have read Chuck Wendig before you will be prepared for his 25 ways to fight saggy middles. If you haven’t read a Chuck post... be warned!
In The Craft Section,
How authors can write faster- Daisy Hartwell- Bookmark
How and why you should write an anti hero- Jessie Mullins
How to make your reader cry- Livia Blackburne
What is an emotional wound? – Becca Puglisi-Bookmark- This
is a sneak preview into the next Emotion Thesaurus, coming soon from the Dynamic Duo!
5 ways to instantly improve your story- Christopher Kokoski
What’s the dark moment all about?- C S Lakin- Bookmark
Plot isn’t Story- K M Weiland- Bookmark
Developing Themes- The inciting incident- Sara Letorneau-
Bookmark
In The Marketing Section,
5 ways to market a memoir- Andrew Emery
The ideal cover photo size- Bufferapp
Indie Ebook promotion strategies- Penny Sansevieri- Bookmark
3 basic rules and 5 best practices of Social Media- Frances
Caballo - Bookmark
Multi tiered price strategies- Martin Cavannagh - Bookmark
Book Marketing checklist- Tim Grahl- Bookmark if you haven’t
already
To Finish
This week Anne R Allen decided to explore whether having a
pen name was still relevant in this day and age. With Google search at
everyone’s fingertips can we stay anonymous? Do we still need a pen name?
Maureen
@craicer
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