One of the most crucial elements to selling a book is also probably the most difficult element for authors to create: the book description. Your book description is your first impression, your chance to hook readers and secure a purchase. A great book description will get people interested, and it’s also your opportunity to get …
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If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it. —Katerina Stoykova Klemer How do you write a book when you don't have time? Most books aren't written in a weekend. No, this work requires the will to plug away at it every day, even …
By: Jonathan Hayashi Until recently, I never thought I would write a book. In fact, I almost did not write Ordinary Radicals because I was afraid people would assume I was simply trying to build a platform for my own popularity. The seeds of inspiration for writing were planted while I was a doctoral student at …
If you’re a writer—of books, essays, scripts, blog posts, whatever—you’re familiar with the phenomenon: the blank screen, a looming deadline, and a sinking feeling in your gut that pairs poorly with the jug of coffee you drank earlier. If you know that rumble all too well: this post is for you. Maybe it’ll help you …
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The worst mistake that you can make when writing for young adults is to oversimplify the material. Although young adults are complex human beings with intelligent minds, blog writers and pop psychologists will often try to boil an entire demographic down to a singularity, causing writers to err into a realm of unauthentic and oversimplified …
When they think about writing, most people don't think about the importance of practice. Practice is a discipline associated with athletes, artists, craftsmen, or any other skilled activity but, for some reason, people usually assume that great writing just pours out of writers like water. This assumption is simply not true. Great writers practice, they …
By: Julie Berry When I first started working on my book, I believed I could simply write and the words, ideas, and awe-inspiring stories would easily flow from my fingertips, through the keyboard, and onto the page. But then reality hit, and I felt like I was a lab rat lost in a very confusing …
So, what exactly is an author platform? In simplest terms, an author platform is your ability to sell books because of who you are and whom you are connected to. But where do you start? Start by taking stock of all the resources you already have at your disposal. You may not have a large author mailing list, but …
Sometimes we need facts to dispel writer’s block, sometimes we need inspiration, but sometimes what we need is to be filled up. Not all writer’s block is actual blockage. Sometimes what we really mean is that we are empty. Writers are writers for their entire life, they may not be published writers for their entire …
Attempting to write a book without avidly reading is like trying to pull water from a dried-up well. There’s nothing there.
If you want to write anything—whether it’s a tweet, blog post, or book—you need to have a storehouse of words to pull from. You need to have in your possession a robust vocabulary, stories to help you illustrate your point, and the only way to build such a repertoire is by reading.
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