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How to Tell If You’ve Found the Best Book Marketing Niche

October 28, 2021

How to Tell If You’ve Found the Best Book Marketing Niche

October 28, 2021

How can you tell if your book marketing niche is the right one? There are three signs to look for. But first, let’s review what we’re talking about. What is…

A Show-Don’t-Tell Database for Writers

October 14, 2021

A Show-Don’t-Tell Database for Writers

October 14, 2021

One thing we’re known for around here is description. For a dozen years, Becca and I have explored topic after topic, and whether it’s settings, emotions, backstory wounds, conflict, weather,…

Need Compelling Conflict? Choose A Variety of Kinds

September 24, 2021

Need Compelling Conflict? Choose A Variety of Kinds

September 24, 2021

All right, hands up: What’s the one thing we can’t get enough of in fiction but we avoid like a screaming toddler in real life? Conflict. It’s ironic that something…

Describing a Character’s Emotions: Problems and Solutions

August 14, 2021

Describing a Character’s Emotions: Problems and Solutions

August 14, 2021

Characters are the heart of a story, but what really draws readers in is their emotions. Only…showing them isn’t always easy, is it? Like us in the real world, characters…

Changing Your Reader’s Perspective

July 8, 2021

Changing Your Reader’s Perspective

July 8, 2021

As writers, we all know how difficult it can be to win readers over. The writing has to be strong, the events realistic, the characters well-rounded, etc. etc. We know…

How to Give a Great Podcast Author Interview

March 30, 2021

How to Give a Great Podcast Author Interview

March 30, 2021

As an author, one of the best ways you can reach new audiences is through podcasts. According to Edison Research and Triton Digital, there are now 62 million Americans listening…

3 Things Worth Thinking About BEFORE You Start Your Book

March 16, 2021

3 Things Worth Thinking About BEFORE You Start Your Book

March 16, 2021

Want to write a novel in 2021? Whether it’s your first, fourth or fiftieth manuscript, there are certain considerations that can help you get off the starter blocks. Here are…

Story Tropes: To Avoid or Not to Avoid?

December 8, 2020

Story Tropes: To Avoid or Not to Avoid?

December 8, 2020

Every genre and medium of storytelling uses tropes, common themes or story devices. For example, a popular trope in the romance genre is “enemies to lovers,” where the characters start as enemies…

Why You Should Be Excerpting Your Novel

September 22, 2020

Why You Should Be Excerpting Your Novel

September 22, 2020

Have you ever been flipping through a magazine and found an excerpt from a book, maybe one you’d never read? And did reading that short passage make you want to…