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Get Attention: 3 Easy Tips To Market Your Writing With Visuals

If you find it hard to market your writing or your books, you’re not alone. Here’s something to keep in mind, no matter what kind of marketing you do. There’s a huge amount of content everywhere — and it’s your competition for attention. No one can consume all the content that’s everywhere.

So, attention is all that matters.

Fail to get attention, and you’ve wasted the time you spent creating content— and the money too, if you’re using paid advertising.

To repeat, attention is everything. To get attention, consider the copywriter’s maxim: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action — also known as AIDA.

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End Your Plotting Woes: Hot Plots Holiday Offering

Hot Plots: Craft Hot-Selling Fiction in 5 Minutes (or less)

Hot Plots is our most popular fiction writing program.

I’m often asked whether we’ll be running an offering on Hot Plots, so here it is, just in time to help you to  develop your self-publishing plans for 2018.

As always, Hot Plots includes coaching. You can use your coaching in any way you choose:

• To develop your plot for a new novel;
• To get help planning a series;
• For help with the novel you’re currently writing.

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Self-Publishing If You’re A New Fiction Author: 5 Tricks

Although the halcyon days of the Kindle gold rush are over, self-publishing still provides great rewards, even for a brand new author.

Just a few days ago a jubilant author who’s been writing for less than a year sent me an email message with a screen clip. In the first 18 days of November, her two books (I promised not to mention the genre) earned over a thousand dollars. At the rate her sales and KENPC are going, I can see her doubling that thousand within a few weeks.

Until November, her books were selling just a few copies a month. Then they took off.

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Self-Publishing Tips: How To Sell Books Without Marketing

Self-publishing and selling books without marketing: is it possible?

The short answer is no. You need to get the word out about your books somehow. Even if the Amazon gods are benevolent, and you luck into a popular but underserved genre, sooner or later you’ll need to give your epic a kick along to get it selling.

That said, you can market without marketing, if that makes sense. Let’s look at three ways.

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Fiction Writing Made Easier, If You Hate To Plot

Fiction writing when you hate to plot

Back in the day, I hated to plot too. I’d get a wonderful idea for a novel and at first the words would flow from my fingertips like magic whenever I sat down to write. Bliss. And then, sooner or later, I blocked, or realized that this junk isn’t going anywhere… what happened?

When a book hit a hit road block, my attitude was: “plot? What plot?”

I decided that I had to get over my plot-phobia. Over a few years, I discovered a plotting method which works for me, and works for my students as well.

Here’s the key. You need to start with a character.

Read the full article here.

Writing Fiction: 3 Simple Ways Access Your Imagination

You’re writing fiction. Writing, writing, writing… it’s going like a dream. You have magical ideas for a brilliant plot, and you adore your characters.

Then it all turns to ashes.

You realize that your plot is stupid. Not only do you suddenly hate your story people, you wish that they would all join hands and jump off a cliff.

You’re stunned. What happened? It was going so well…

Relax. You’ve merely lost your storyteller’s mind state for the moment. That’s OK. You can get it back. You simply need to tune your imagination.

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Freelance Writing In 2018: 5 Exciting Opportunities

Here’s a marketing tip for an outstanding 2018 — give LinkedIn advertising a try. Facebook advertising works for many writers too, even in B2B (business to business) industries.

Let’s look at some exciting freelance opportunities which exist now, and which look all set for a brilliant 2018.

1. Self-publishing author support: editing and much more

Self-publishing authors are busy, especially those publishing six to 12 or more books a year. They need author support in story development as well as in editing and proofing.

As more traditionally published authors make the switch to indie, they’re looking for publishing support too. They need help in areas like multi-platform publishing.

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Writing Short Stories: 3 Lessons From The Class

1. Short stories boost your KDP pages read — instantly

Sales for the pen name under which I wrote the two short stories have been languishing, because I haven’t published anything under that name since 2015.

The first short story kickstarted sales, and Pages Read. Within a couple of hours of the second story going live, it was racking up Pages Read too. Very satisfying.

The prelaunch of our class was a success too. Writers tell me that they’ve gained in confidence, and know they’ll be able to make great use of short stories in their publishing plans going forward.

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Self-Publishing Success With Social Media: 4 Content Curation Tips

One of the biggest benefits of content curation is that it can help you to build your authority as an author.

Here’s how it works. Imagine for a few moments that you’re an author who publishes cozy mysteries. You’ve written three mysteries about your heroine, a retired military dog handler who lives in a small English village. You want to use content curation to promote your cozies.

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Self-Publishing: 3 Tips To Help You To Thrive With KDP Select

We talked about a mini SWOT analysis in this post on novel-writing hacks. The more your income depends on something, the more alert you need to be to threats to that income. Nothing stays the same. Once your self-publishing income becomes something on which you rely, please do a SWOT, regularly. (And avoid websites which don’t have a way of making money.)

OK, now let’s look at some tips to help you to thrive with KDP Select.

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Writing to Sell: Christmas is Coming

When you’re writing to sell, Christmas comes early. Many businesses make the bulk of their income from October to January. If you’ve got clients, they have writing jobs for you NOW. It’s much easier to get writing jobs at this time of the year.

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No Time? 3 Vital Time Management Tips For Freelancers

Time management when you’re a freelance writer

If you’re overwhelmed with your writing business, there’s one thing to remember: write first. Everything else must fit in around your writing, because that pays the bills.

Basically, your time management consists of setting your “do not disturb, I’m writing” hours, and fitting everything else in around that.

Luckily, today’s technology is a blessing, because you can work anywhere when you use cloud apps.

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5 Simple NaNoWriMo Writing Hacks You Can Use Today

Firstly, kudos if you’re taking part. You’ll learn a lot about yourself, and with any luck at all, you’ll write and publish your novel.

NaNoWriMo hacks: easy tricks to survive November

Anytime I’ve got an important writing project, I take half an hour or so to plan the project, and to do a mini SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. So that’s our first hack.

Let’s look at some fun tricks to make NaNoWriMo easier.

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