by Jim Azevedo Imagine if you had the personal email address of every reader who’s ever enjoyed one of your books. Surely, many of these readers would happily buy your next book if only they knew about it. Apart from mastering the craft of writing, your ability to notify fans about your next new release
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Doubt is the Devil
by Matthew Félix “Doubt is the Devil! Show doubt, and he’ll be back!” I woke up with the quote resounding in my mind. It was as though an old woman were standing over me waving her finger, scolding me to make sure I got the point. A couple of weeks earlier, I had received the
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How to Use Your Author Website for Book Marketing
By John Burke Reposted with permission from the author. You can find the link to the original post here. Your author website is your primary online presence, your brand, your “home” and your author platform. This is where people will come to find out more about you and your books, which gives you an excellent
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The Thing You Think You Cannot Say: Writing a Memoir You Can Live With
by Stuart Horwitz Writing a memoir is like writing a detective story where you get to find out what happened—except, it’s to you. It’s a complicated challenge. In the first place, you have to find your best stories, and tell them in a way that is interesting to other people, with the proper level of
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Why Write?
By Grant Faulkner Reposted with permission from the author. You can find the original post, entitled Why Write? A Manifesto to Fortify Your New Year’s Resolutions, here. One day a year or so ago, I was going through some old papers, and I discovered a notecard with my 2003 New Year’s resolutions on it. The depressing
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Telling Your Fearless Truth
by Martha Alderson The daily sacrifices made by our essential workers inspire you to want to express your support. The members of the Black and Brown communities standing up for justice generate in you the desire to raise your voice. Watching the evening political news, you feel on every level of your being that the
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