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The Hacks for Hacks Guide to Writing Awards
Warning: Hacks for Hacks tips may have harmful side effects on your writing career, and should not be used by minors, adults, writers, poets, scribes, scriveners, journalists, or anybody. Let’s talk...
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How to Nurture Your Fan Base
Warning: Hacks for Hacks tips may have harmful side effects on your writing career, and should not be used by minors, adults, writers, poets, scribes, scriveners, journalists, or anybody. Fans are one...
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Musings on Genres, Shame, and Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Genre Wheel from Good Reads Wheel-A-Thon I don’t tell my ‘academic’ colleagues that I write fiction. I don’t talk much about my non-fiction writing to my fiction-writing community. I LOVE e-readers...
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The Joy of Telling Other People’s Stories
How’s this for a story: For the past 18 months, Christine Connelly’s ex has forbidden her to see their young daughter. Not because Christine has harmed her daughter, violated any agreements or broken...
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How to Plan Your Own Book Tour
Warning: Hacks for Hacks tips may have harmful side effects on your writing career, and should not be used by minors, adults, writers, poets, scribes, scriveners, journalists, or anybody. They say book...
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False Summits–and How to Get to the Top Anyway
Today’s guest is Harry Bingham, the (British) author of the Fiona Griffiths crime series, which has been critically acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. He also runs a couple of outfits, The...
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How to Create a Website as a Writer (Without it Costing You Both One Arm and...
Please welcome guest Stuart Horwitz, founder and principal of Book Architecture, a firm of independent editors based in Providence. Book Architecture’s clients have reached the best-seller list in both...
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There’s a Fine Line Between (Online) Love and Hate
Today’s guests are Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke, authors of Your Perfect Life and, released this month, The Status of All Things. They have been best friends for more than twenty-five years. Liz lives...
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Mythbuster: Why Contacts Won’t Bring Your Book Media Coverage
cloud of words or tags related to myth and reality on a digital tablet If you’re thinking of hiring a publicist, one of the first questions you’re likely to ask is: “Do you have good contacts?” Authors...
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Meeting Readers Where They Are
Our guest today is Elizabeth Dimarco, CEO and co-founder of BooksILove, a free mobile platform for readers to discuss the books they’ve read and get recommendations from friends and co-workers in...
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The Joy of Telling Other People’s Stories
How’s this for a story: For the past 18 months, Chris’s ex has forbidden her to see their young daughter. Not because Chris has harmed her daughter, violated any agreements or broken the law, but —...
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How to Plan Your Own Book Tour
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Judging a Book By Both Its Covers
Today’s guest is Greer Macallister, a poet, short story writer, playwright, and novelist whose work has appeared in publications like The North American Review, The Missouri Review, and The Messenger....
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The 6 Most Common Marketing Mistakes Made by Authors
Please welcome Jon Bard as our guest today. Jon has been helping authors for twenty-five years as the co-owner of Children’s Book Insider, the Newsletter for Children’s Writers. He recently introduced...
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Why Book PR Needs Lead Time. Lots of it.
“Dear publicist, My book just released and I’d like to promote it. How can you help?” “Hi! My novel came out last fall and sales have been close to zero. Can we talk about what your firm can do to...
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Standing Out on the Crowded Shelf—How to Help Your Fiction Find an Audience
Our guest today is Lynne Griffin, author of the family-focused novels Girl Sent Away, Sea Escape, and Life Without Summer, as well as the nonfiction parenting guides Let’s Talk About It: Adolescent...
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The Skinny On Blurbs
Your manuscript is finished and the agent submissions checklist is all set: Target list: check. Killer elevator pitch: check. Brief bio including previous literary accomplishments: check. SASE ready to...
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The Art and Craft of Author Interviews
Scenario 1: You’re a writer whose first book is about to be published, and you’ve been inundated with requests for interviews. In the dim and distant days before blogs and online magazines, that meant...
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Exploring the Rule of Seven
Our guest today is Lisa Alber, a Hibernophile whose first novel, Kilmoon, was nominated for the Rosebud Award for best first novel. She is the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation writing grant...
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The Secrets of Trying For A Bestseller List: Interview With Greenleaf’s...
“What can I do to get my book onto a bestseller list?” If I had a dime for each time an author has asked me this question, I wouldn’t need to be a bestseller myself to be rich. Until recently though,...
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