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Writing is about communication, and effective communication depends on understanding your audience. A book written in untranslated Japanese is unlikely to land with a mass Western audience, a book full of high-level terms and complex sentences isn’t going to set the children’s literature market on fire, and even certain ideas and ways of thinking are going to drive away a general readership unless …
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In this, our twenty-first century world, book marketing is rather futuristic. It’s no longer enough, the marketing gurus tell us, to have written a book and to tell people about said book; you need to have a multifaceted marketing campaign set up and ready to go if you want anyone to actually read the thing you spent so long writing. One of the more unusual marketing innovations of recent …
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Your book has been published, you’ve raked in a few good reviews, and you’re riding high on the success. Not wanting that momentum to taper off, you’ve been thinking about ways to keep the energy going, and you’ve discovered that hosting an author reading is one of the best ways to expand your fan base and connect with new readers. If you’ve never done this before, it can feel pretty …
If you have tried everything to banish procrastination from your life but you’re still struggling, you’re going to want to tune in today. Mel Robbins’ The 5 Second Rule can help even the most willful procrastinator have their breakthrough. What makes this technique different from everything else you’ve tried to get yourself motivated? Read on to find out, but I’ll give you a hint: it has …
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Welcome to part 2 of our article on ‘origifying’ fan fiction into something that stands (and can be sold) on its own two feet. In part 1 (available here), we discussed the basic logic of how to turn fan fiction into original work, and we began addressing superficial differences and cutting any ties that don’t serve our new story. In this, part 2, we’ll be getting a lot more practical, and since …
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In one form or another, fan fiction has always been part of literature. Before books, oral storytelling meant that you were always telling your version of a tale you heard elsewhere, and famous works like Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and basically any of Shakespeare’s plays all depict characters and events their creators found elsewhere and put to their own use. Joyce’s …
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