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Although being in the right online stores is key to how well your book will do, wherever you sell your book prospective readers still have to find it. That can be a more daunting prospect than it first appears but happily you can make your book far easier to find with just a few minor changes to the keywords in the title or description. One of the most effective things you can do is use …
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There’s a lot of fantastic advice on writing out there but in real life authors don’t have the time to seek out every single piece of it. What’s more it’s difficult to find sources that don’t overlap, teaching the same lesson over and over again. That’s why it’s our pleasure to present the ten best books on writing. But we haven’t stopped there: each book on this list is the best in its field, …
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The About the Author page is the part of your author website where you introduce and discuss your work and persona as an author. It is incredibly important because it’s often one of the first things visitors see. Your About page is the hotel foyer of your website. It doesn’t matter how opulent the rooms are, if the first room a guest sees is cramped, badly lit and messy they’ll turn around and …
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Book trailers are video advertisements for books, usually structured in the same way as a movie trailer. They can involve voiceovers, music, animation or live action footage, and information on when the book is available or where you can buy it. Book trailers are a lot of fun. Books usually don’t usually get the same variety in their advertising as other types of media, so it’s great for fans to …
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Some of the most famous characters in literature are written with a distinct mode of speech that ties them to a social class, ethnic group or even a specific region. Writing accents and dialects into your dialogue can give characters an authentic personality and presence. It can also render them incoherent. Communicating an authentic voice can be difficult, so in this article, I’ll explore the …
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We’ve all heard the famous saying about judging book covers but how many people actually take its advice? The answer is not many and your cover may be the biggest deciding factor on whether or not your book gets read. As the first thing a potential reader sees, your cover is the salesman for your book. If the blurb lets you down then the first few pages could save you, but if your cover turns …
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