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How do you use a photo-based platform to advertise your written work? Good question, and seeing as Instagram boasts over 500,000,000 users who spend nearly an hour a day (on average) perusing the site, one that’s well worth answering. Now may be a good time to make your move, too, since the market isn’t flooded with authors vying for users’ attention. If you want to learn how to make Instagram …
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Everybody loves a good love triangle… as long as they’re not part of it. It’s a sad fact of human nature: other people’s drama makes us feel better about our own lives. Not only that, when things are complicated, they need to be resolved. There’s nothing a reader loves more than conflict and resolution, even if the ‘resolution’ comes in the form of shock, death, infidelity – all manner of …
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Pulp writing isn’t quite a subgenre and it isn’t quite a medium. Yes, it once had stylistic and even aesthetic boundaries, but the sensibilities behind those boundaries have outlived them by decades, and pulp is now more an approach to storytelling than anything else. Happily, it’s an approach that has a lot to teach modern authors, and if you can adjust to the pulp way of thinking, you’ll have …
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There are lots of ways to market a book, but the problem with most of them is how alien they can feel to writers. It’s rare that artistically-minded people have an instinct for selling, and indie authors can quickly grow frustrated with the need to package and repackage a book while offering shrewd discounts at different times in the year. Of course, it’s beneficial to get comfortable …
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Many authors find it difficult to define the genre of their work. There’s nothing wrong with that as you’re writing – seeing your own art as so unique as to defy classification is perfectly healthy – but when it comes to marketing and publishing, you need to know what you’re selling. That’s why, in today’s article, we’ll be looking at why genre matters, how to apply it, and why going deeper …
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For self-publishing authors, book marketing often comes down to discoverability – how do you make potential readers aware of your work when you’re on a budget? One answer is book discovery sites, but like any service, not all discovery sites are created equal. That’s why, in today’s article, we’ll be talking about the things to look for when listing your book on a discovery site. First, …
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