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Book launching should be more fun than it is. After all, the story we’ve worked so hard on for so long is finally going to find readers. I talked about my book launch on YouTube before I started. Check it out if you want to know what the planned launch looked like. My plan? In …
Many writers have the goal of having a best-selling book. After all, that would be the ultimate sign of writing success, right? Or maybe not. There are different definitions for “best-selling” on different platforms. Many lists exist that determine what sells the best: USA Today, New York Times, and Amazon are the ones most often …
I’m coming up on two years as a full-time writer. I have spent hours writing words, days editing them and months submitting the resulting stories to appropriate markets. And still I wonder: at what point does a person feel like an author? When the first acceptance letter comes? I’ve got two, and I still feel like …
A new movie trailer revs your adrenaline. The title sounds vaguely familiar. Right. It echoes from the bestselling book list – New York Times or Amazon. Sometimes this is a good thing. I’m thinking about Catching Fire, which moved along quite well on the big screen. Things were still lost; many of them had been …