Visual Storytelling
Visual storytelling can add dimension to an author’s text, by using images to enhance or illustrate the words. It’s a powerful, direct way to convey information. This is true for both fiction and non-fiction.
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Marketing and Selling Plans for Your Book
To begin, it’s useful to distinguish between Marketing and Selling Plans.
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Does Your Printed-Book or Electronic-Book Need an ISBN?
Does Your Book Need an ISBN?
This is a frequent question that authors ask. Unfortunately, there’s no simple one-word answer. Let’s start with some basic information. The following is copied directly from the R.R. Bowker website. For authors located in the United States, Bowker is the official registration agency of the ISBN.
Thinking about Self-publishing an e-book?
As we’ve noted several times in these posts, there are lots of options, these days, when it comes to publishing a book. If you choose to self-publish an e-book (electronic book), here are some things to consider.
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Writing is Rewriting
Rewriting is the essence of writing well—
where the game is won or lost.
~ William Zinsser
The first draft of your book is done on a blank slate, where the important thing is to get your ideas and thoughts down on paper (real or virtual). Even if you started with an outline, it’s almost impossible to see the whole work as you write. It’s like a painting—the picture can’t be appreciated until the artist is finished. Rewriting is a chance to look back at or revisit a first or previous draft—to take a fresh, critical look at what’s been written.
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How to Start Writing Your Book
Do you have a book inside you just crying to get out? Are you having difficulty just getting started? Well, here are some ideas to help you start writing your book.
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Are You Thinking About Writing a Book?
Many people think that they have a book inside them. While writing a book can be personally rewarding, it can also boost the perception of you as an expert. This can contribute to your marketing and sales plan, and it can help create extra revenue — perhaps less directly from book sales, but using it to get speaking engagements and selling it and yourself in that venue.
However, some of you may be shying away from this kind of project, thinking what a lot of time, work and potential expenses it might involve. However, here are some ideas on how to overcome this mental barrier.
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Beating Writer’s Block
Writer’s block happens, occasionally, to almost all authors. The creative juices slow down to a trickle or just stop. Inspiration seems to vanish. The writer may be distracted by other events or some adverse condition, or may be under some personal pressure or stress. The block may last for a few hours or, worse, for a few years.
Are You a Serious Self-Publisher?
The following information comes from a May 24, 2012, blog post by Catherine Ryan Howard, and is based on Not a Gold Rush, the Taleist Self-Publishing Survey, Steven Lewis (of Taleist) and Dave Cornford. The survey was conducted in February 2012, and polled more than 1,000 self-publishers.
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Adding Syllables to Words Does Not Add Meaning
Created Words Without Meaning
People use several “enhanced” words to make themselves sound more intellectual. However, the reverse, sadly, is more likely. One of the most common is preventative (which, by the way, the Microsoft Word® spell checker allows). The correct word is preventive. However, not only does one hear this word spoken, but it sometimes appears in printed advertisements and articles. To show how silly this word is, imagine the word inventive suddenly becoming inventative, or incentive becoming incentative. This kind of phony fluffing of words can make one insensitative to good language practices.
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