Number Fourteen Publishers Do Not Care If You Succeed This is a sad fact of the publishing industry. What the publishers care about—and the ONLY thing they care about—is if your latest release succeeds. There are a few publishers who worry about your backlist sales success (see Rule Number Seven) because backlist sales can make …
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Feb 12
THWT Question for 12 FEB 2019
The Two Hundred Word Tuesday question for today is: How many books have you written? Which one is your favorite? Keep Loving!
Feb 08
Melodee’s Rules for Authors — Number Thirteen
Number Thirteen Your Great New Title Is Already Taken Titles are a problem for all authors. You want a title that will say something about the story and catch the potential buyer’s attention. Sometimes, that’s hard to do and most of us struggle as much with the title as we do with the story itself. …
Feb 05
THWT Question for 05 FEB 2019
Here’s the Two Hundred Word Tuesday question for today… Do you see any of your characters becoming popular among cosplayers? If so, which one(s) and why? Keep Loving!
Feb 01
Melodee’s Rules for Authors — Number Twelve
Number Twelve As Soon As A Book Is Released, You Will Find 100+ Editing Errors Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. O’Toole’s Corollary: Murphy was an optimist. Yes, Murphy is alive and well. He works in the publishing business. Just a couple of my own experiences in this area… I once released …
Jan 29
THWT Question for 29 JAN 2019
Here’s the Two Hundred Word Tuesday question for today… Have you written a book (or story) you love that you have not been able to publish for some reason? Keep Loving!
Jan 22
THWT Question for 22 JAN 2019
The Two Hundred Word Tuesday question for today is: How do you pick excerpts used to promote your books? Keep Loving!
Jan 18
Melodee’s Rules for Authors — Number Ten
Number Ten Generally Speaking, Writing Experts Aren’t I want you to think about something totally unrelated to writing for a minute… How many people are there professing they are “experts” in social media or search engine optimization (SEO) or various other subjects related to online marketing? Millions? More? Why are there so many? Because there …
Jan 15
THWT Question for 15 JAN 2019
Here is the Two Hundred Word Tuesday question for 15 JAN 2019: What is your favorite writing format and why: Jumbo Novel (over 120,000 words); Long Novel (over 80,000 words); Novel (over 40,000 words); Novella (17,500 – 39,999 words); Novelette (7,500 – 17,499 words); Short Story (1000 – 7,499 words); Flash (less than 1,000 words)? …
Jan 11
Melodee’s Rules for Authors — Number Nine
Number Nine Final Drafts Are Still Pretty Rough OK, maybe they’re REALLY rough. No matter how carefully you read your manuscript, there will be errors. Grammar, spelling, syntax, and all of the rest will creep in and entrench the errors so deep that you, as the writer, can’t even see them. Logic and flow errors …
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