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Resources for Kindle Authors and Publishers, from Steve Windwalker
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Alan Baxter talks about coping with rejection following manuscript submission. [Publetariat Editor’s Note: strong language] You’ve heard it before, I’m sure – you have to keep swimming. That’s true for the actual act of writing in the first place. No matter how hard it is, you just keep going. To […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, we share a free university website resource that will be helpful for any writer. This post originally appeared on the George Mason University English Writing Guide site. While it’s intended for use by students of that University who are following a specific essay-writing curriculum, the common errors it lists will be […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn shares tips for getting a first draft out. Whether you have made the 50,000 or not, it doesn’t matter, as long as there has been some focused writing this month! And, there’s still time. For anybody else wanting to write fiction, this might help you […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Savvy Book Marketer Dana Lynn Smith shares tips for identifying and overcoming obstacles in your book marketing effort. Many authors consider book marketing a necessary evil – they would rather be writing! But of course it’s essential to promote your book if you want to actually sell it. Here are five […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author Virginia Ripple looks at indie author options for audiobook production and distribution. Back in June of last year I finished recording the audio version of Simply Prayer and went looking for a place to sell it. At the time Kunaki seemed the best choice. Since then my audio book […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, the Duolit team explains why offline book promotion still matters, and offer some offline promo ideas. Have you ever been totally sidelined by (what should be) a simple sickness? You know the ones I’m talking about: that cold or flu that just won’t quit! I don’t get sick often, but, over […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author LJ Sellers discusses the vanishing distinctions between genres of fiction. Thrilling: adj., producing sudden, strong, and deep emotion or excitement Doesn’t that pretty much describe all great novels? Yet according to librarians and bookstore owners, traditional labeling defines thrillers as fast-paced, realistic books that focus on plot more than character […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Zoe Winters talks about writer rituals. So… I am someone who has long scorned the idea of “having a set of writing rituals before starting to write.” I didn’t like the idea of having these little OCD things I had to do before writing. Or these “stalling techniques”, however one […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Publetariat founder and Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton shares her reasons for not going full-bore with author platform and marketing her books. As you may have noticed, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve posted [to my Indie Author blog]. There are good reasons for that, like the fact that […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Peg Brantley muses on the sometimes murky waters of authorial ethics. This post originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective blog and is reprinted here in its entirety with that site’s permission. If you draw a line in the sand—over which you affirm you will not cross—where do you […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Publetariat founder and Editor in Chief shares her annual holiday tradition of reprinting her poem, A Writer’s Night Before Christmas. For those who don’t know, the “NaNoWriMo” to which she refers in the last line is National Novel Writing Month, in which participants attempt to write an entire novel in the […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Jennie Hillborne shares some of the likely reasons someone might decide not to finish reading a book. This post, by Jenny Hillborne, originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective blog on 9/26/12 and is reprinted here in its entirety with that site’s permission. Confession: I watch reality TV. Some of the […]