I love this piece written by Maria Murname on two common mistakes made by first time authors. It definitely hit home. Here’s an excerpt: 1) All the characters sound the same. Dialogue is a great tool for character development because it gives your readers a direct line into your characters’ heads. If they all sound the
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I’m so excited to see all the statistics and graphs compiled by the people over at Author Earnings. In their latest earnings report, the data they’ve revealed shows that for the first time self published authors are earning more than authors who are published by the 5 major publishing houses. That’s BIG news for us.
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When I first started reading independent authors, I heard about Kristen Ashley. She is well known in the indie romance community (books like Rock Chick Series and The Dream Man Series), but according to her, it wasn’t always that way. It wasn’t overnight success by a long shot. It was a slow and steady climb
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Having sold over 70 million copies of her trilogy, Fifty Shades Of Grey, we’re not all going to be fan fiction phenoms like E.L. James, but it’s inspirational all the same to see an author holding her own on Forbes Most Powerful Celebrity List right under Howard Stern and above Simon Cowell! Cool right? And
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H.M. Ward is my first pick for the Indie Inspiration Writer Series. H.M. Ward – The Facts H.M. Ward is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of New Adult and YA Fiction. While her following began with her YA supernatural novels, her career really took off after publishing her New Adult fiction
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Fiction writer Holly Lisle spends a lot of her time teaching new writers how to write novels. She has written well over 30 novels herself and has also written several courses for fiction writers which are quite popular. In this video that I am sharing below, Holly conducted a question and answer Google+ chat, and
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