All Blog Posts Tagged 'writing' (615)

MARSHA COOK - SIZZLIN'HOT ROMANCE  and  Co host Elizabeth Black welcomes the authors of NAUGHTY NIGHTS PRESS on Friday June 28, at 1PM EST NOON CST 11AM MT 10 AM PST.  This is going to be a great celebration!

Bennet Pomerantz will be there to join the celebration and to wish the authors good luck!

Meet the authors -

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Join Host Virginia S Grenier on Monday as she talks with Dennis Milam Bensie about his two memoirs: One Gay American and Shorn: Toys to Men.

This show is going to be about many different topics from writing and the arts to child abuse and family relastionships.

Dennis Milam Bensie grew up in Robinson, Illinois where his interest in the arts began in high…

Join host Fran Lewis on June 20 at 4pm ET 3 PM CST for a wonderful discussion. Romance Thursday with best selling romance author RAEANNE THAYNE. Her new book hits the market on June 25.

More about  Raeanne

WILLOWLEAF LANE, hits bookstores June 25. The book is available for pre-order now. You can find it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or…

Interesting how subtle and diverse marketing a book/screenplay can be - without being intentional. Let me explain.

My wife and I do the occasional flea market for extra cash - writers need to eat. We generally set up our stall with antiques and near antiques and of late we also lay down a tarp and display books. All…

Join R Jeffreys on Blog Talk Radio's Featured World of Ink Network. His esteemed guest is the Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, a writer, and a lecturer, William Kenower.  Bill and I will be discussing the writing process and the just released compilation…

My new nonfiction, Write It Right-Tips for Authors - The Big Book, along with my interview is featured on

http://blazingtrailers.com/

Interviews get your book covers in front of people. Do you do interviews? Many? Does it help your sales stats? I'd love to hear.

When you go to a purchase site for books, are the reviews important to you?  

Is the review what determines whether or not you will buy a book?  

Does it seem like all the reviewers lately are just friends of the author who have left reviews?

All of these are important questions when asking yourself if it is important to promote your book via book reviews.  Amazon seems to be the place where most of the reviews are…

One of the chief advantages of writing mysteries is that you can actually make a living at it. Usually, mysteries are published in series. Once you have established an engaging main character and a perfect setting (according to Bowker, Americans like their mysteries set in “the misty bogs of Scotland and London’s Trafalgar Square” – but New York or Rome will do in a…

If you are new to the blogging scene, you probably don’t have a lot of followers (yet). For aspiring authors, this is a calamity. There you are, pouring your heart and soul into your posts, and nobody is reading them! How will anybody know that you are a gifted writer if your blog is languishing, unhonored and unsung, in cyberspace?

The standard advice to unsung…

The layout of your book is very important. The average paperback book size is six inches wide and nine inches tall, which is much smaller than the average size of a sheet of an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper. This means that if you are submitting a book for printing, you will need to select the proper page setup.

Your page layout can be designed with any word processing software if your book is for a small audience of friends or family. Any serious work, however, should be…

Romance novels are arguably the most economically successful of all fiction genres. According to Romance Writers of America, romance books bring in a whopping 1.3 billion dollars a year, more than mystery novels, science fiction and fantasy combined. It's no wonder that more than half of all new fiction is comprised of romance novels. (This statistic is borne out by Amazon's…

Down to the Needle

“The perp torched himself,” a fireman said, shouting to be heard over the clamor.

Angry red and orange flames from the still burning back half of the warehouse licked at the night sky. Glowing yellow embers, blown by April’s night breezes off the nearby ocean, took flight. Fire trucks encircled the building. Firefighters scrambled over strewn equipment. Men wearing army fatigues darted about. Two ambulances waited for the…

If you haven't noticed, I have been taking an hiatus from writing.  But, that's not to say that my hiatus will be permanent.  Not by a long shot.  Instead, I have been immersed in reading autobiographies which always whet my appetite to write.



One of the books I had the pleasure of reading was about Frances Farmer.  I had always heard the stories and even saw a clip from the show, "This is Your Life" that featured her very dark life.  She was a hopeful, shining…

Where do writers get their ideas? That's my topic over at http://franorenstein.weebly.com/new-blog.html

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A good many indie writers like myself are struggling to sell their books and consequently build up a readership, which I believe is the key to establishing yourself as a writer. I received my public library statement last week, and it tells me that my books were loaned out about 4500 times. Some may say that this not a lot, but the previous year my loans figure was 6000. I know a large number of public libraries have closed in UK, which I think is so sad, but it’s an inevitable sign of the…

The big book, Write It Right - Tips for Authors, Volume II is published!

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A F*R*E*E eBook. Don't miss out. Write It Right - Tips for Authors, Vol. I, 2nd Edition is free at smashwords.com today till Saturday, Jan. 12. Use the code HU75F at check out. Get it free, now!

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