E. J. Dawson

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  • Book Marketing

    Book Marketing

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    I am going to preface this by stating I don’t have all the answers.   There is a lot of information out there that doesn’t tell you certain things, like signing up with certain marketing companies doesn’t work unless you write their genre, or your book isn’t ready, or you write a series. And most…

  • A Successful Author

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    The first time I was asked when would I call myself a successful author, the answer was easy; if I was writing full time it meant people where buying enough of my book that I could do what I wanted.   That was when I started four years ago.   It doesn’t feel that long,…

  • NaNoWriMo Survival Guide

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    So you signed up for Nanowrimo… good job!   There are a lot of guides out there, so I’m just going to tell you what works for me, take of it what you will. First things first – Nano isn’t hard… for a vetran writer.  Stephen King says write 2k a day, well you only…

  • Birthdays and Broken Promises

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    This time last year I was at a pub, celebrating with friends the release of the Well of Youth. For the past 72 hours I have worked ceaselessly on finishing A Phantom Presence. I have been behind schedule all year, not with writing so much as editing. Both my editor and I have had numerous…

  • The Last Prophecy – Explained!

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    You’re doing what?!? Writing a 21 book/novella series… and in my sleep Cthulhu eats my brain. This came about thanks to @lilcrow during a flurry of twitter when she asked me what I wrote, and I blabbed about my series, later realising I’d given her the complete wrong impression. She’d assumed I’d actually finished this…

  • Name Generators

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    I promised a friend of mine that I’d let them know how I come up with the unique names for all my characters. Originally I debated doing this, I didn’t want to give away a resource that someone else could use. And as soon as I said out loud why I didn’t want to do…

  • SelfPub at a Writers Expo? Where do I sign?

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    No, really, its not an rhetorical question. It shouldn’t be a question. I’ve been on this journey for three years now, and I’m still asking myself that question. When I started my self pubbing journey I did it because there was a voice inside me that wasn’t just the woman who occasional wrote a bit,…

  • 1 Down, 5 to go….

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    And 2 to edit! As quiet as I’ve been believe it or not I am only running slightly behind schedule! Unfortunately I’ve also attended a family wedding, coo-ed over becoming a real Aunt instead of just an aunt in law, and changed jobs! All of it involved holidays, celebrating, consumption of brain power and not…

  • Where have I been?

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    Right here actually, I was right here working my behind off. I’ve flung myself into the yet unnamed 3rd book of the Last Prophecy Series, and its proving to be beautiful but… a tad political, requiring oodles of research but that’s for another post when I DO have a title for the book. I’m also…

  • Looking forward and proud of what’s past…

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    It’s at this time of year that I look more towards the new year than what has passed before, and I cannot do that this year. I released the first book in the Last Prophecy Series, The Well of Youth. From that came my first book launch, and it told me that I had made…