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I’ve been doing a lot of beta reading lately, and thought I’d do a quick five minute post on some easy solutions for frequent problems I’ve been running into in my reading; Repetition Tell not show Character reactions Action sequences Of all the things I pull people up on these are the ones that I come across the most and today I wanted to give you the tools to help… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #betareaders, #betareading, #creativity, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, writerslife, writing
There is a battle on Twitter at the moment. I first witnessed it from several readers who were attacked by Indie authors for leaving anything but a five-star review. Authors… attacking readers. What kind of a fucked-up person do you have to be to attack your own consumers? One reader had given four stars, and posted a glowing review, but took it down after the indie author not tracked them… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #amreading, #authors, #books, #honesty, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #indiebooks, #read, #readers, #reviews, #selfpub, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #writingcommunity, indie, writerslife, writing
I was recently speaking to a friend about what else she could do beyond the basics of getting her marketing plan ready, and what it was to actually have one. There were things I knew, information I’d learned over the years that I’d kept to myself. Another Twitter user asked for some pointers, completely separate, and I thought about sharing my secretes with them too, before I asked myself why the hell… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #authors, #book, #books, #community, #ebook, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #marketing, #reviews, #success, #writingcommunity, indie, writerslife, writing
The Writing Community on Twitter has become the largest, fluffiest blanket of love and communication on Twitter. Ask any writer or creative and all sorts and they will assure you that the community on Twitter has made them a better writer. With people posting success and losses, times of trial and celebration, there are any number of people to reach out to for help, encouragement and support. But for such a… Read More
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, but an aeon of time has passed, so much of my life has changed. Much of it… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #accomplished, #accomplishment, #adventure, #authors, #book, #creativity, #creators, #dreams, #ebook, #epic, #fantasy, #fighting, #imagination, #indieauthor, #inspiration, #nanowrimo, #novel, #novella, #poems, #poetry, #proud, #published, #random, #series, #story, #storyteller, #success, #successfulauthor, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, genre, storytelling, writerslife, writing
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 mammoth task, and flattering as it was, I’m a long way off. But I am determined… if… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #adventure, #amwritingfantasy, #book, #creativity, #creators, #Cthulhu, #epic, #fantasy, #indieauthor, #inspiration, #NA, #nanowrimo, #novel, #novella, #poem, #poems, #poetry, #selfpub, #SelfPubIsHere, #selfpublishing, #series, #steampunk, #storyteller, #writemotivation, #writingcommunity, amwriting, indie, writerslife, writing
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, had even finished a couple of novels. I had a story I desperately needed someone to hear,… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #Aussieauthor, #book, #cockygate, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #selfpub, #SelfPubIsHere, #selfpublishing, #story, #storyteller, amwriting, author, indie, storytelling, writerslife, writing
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 neck deep in the reviews for Queen of Spades Awakening – and being told by my beta… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #adventure, #chasing, #creativity, #dream, #dreams, #fantasy, #imagination, #proud, #selfpublished, amwriting, author, writerslife, writing
I’m crying. I’ve been crying all morning. Pronoun is shutting down and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I just launched the Well of Youth and its getting 4 and 5-star reviews. I just put a lot of money into advertising and reviewing to garner its attention. I took down my novella and made it free before, lost all the great reviews that Amazon wouldn’t put back, and got… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #author, #badtimes, #creativity, #darktimes, #fighting, #imagination, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #nanowrimo, #nanowrimo2017, #pronoun, #selfdoubt, #selfpublished, #storyteller, #writingtips, writerslife, writing
It didn’t dawn on me until I was sitting at the launch, the display out for everyone, that I felt like I could be excited! The local Mayor was coming to give a speech, my Dad flew down from the NSW coast unexpectedly, but I didn’t feel until that moment that I’d really done it. As people started turning up it started to pass in a blur, but I got so many… Read More
Category: Uncategorized Tags: #accomplished, #accomplishment, #author, #book, #bookrelease #bookart, #breastcancerawareness, #chasing, #creativity, #dream, #dreams, #fantasy, #goodtimes, #imagination, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #proud, #published, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #steampunk, #story, amwriting, goals, indie, writerslife, writing
