Good information from this Editor and Author – Thanks D.B.!
Today I’m hosting Noah JD Chinn of Mossfoot Editing on my blog. He’s graciously agreed to put his red pen aside, or should I say, his track changes and comment bubbles, so that we can learn more about him.
Noah has worked with a variety of writers including New York Times, USA Today and Amazon best selling authors. As both an editor and multi-published author, Noah knows what it’s like to be on both sides of the keyboard and I know first hand what that kind of experience can bring to a project. Noah edited my debut novel, STILL LIFE.
For the benefit of those who haven’t worked with an editor before, let me briefly explain what such a professional does when it comes to bringing your raw project to a shiny, ready for publication, finish. An editor ensures your manuscript follows a logical course to the best ending possible…
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So sad, but so true. What all writer’s need are the three P’s: Persistence, patience and perseverance. If you don’t expect an overnight success, then it will be easier to keep going, one review, one contact, one tweet at a time.
And of course fairies, everyone believes in fairies.
How many emails hit your inbox each day promising to make you an overnight success. Five, ten or more? And you only thing needed is for you to buy their latest book or subscribe to their latest writing course.
Now don’t get me wrong, some are wonderful and legit. But none are gonna make me an overnight success. At best the good ones can only act as stepping-stones to success.
Now I don’t mean to rain on anybody’s parade because I guess it could happen. I mean people get struck by lightning every day somewhere in the world, I’m sure.
What we can do is take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way. Look around and free…
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I know it’s been 2016 for a while but I wanted to share this anyway. Jillian Bergsma Manning reminds us of things we as writers should think about (and hopefully implement) in the new year.
What’s on your writer’s to do list for 2016?
I know one thing I would like to improve on. I would like to plan out my book events a bit more in advance, if I can. It will make me feel better and will be less stressful to boot!
Source: Independent Publisher: THE Voice of the Independent Publishing Industry
Some good marketing information from Nicolas C. Rossis via J.A. Stinger’s blog.
As promised at the end of my post, My Facebook Ads Experience and 3 Marketing Rules, here are two alternative ways you can use Facebook ads to gain subscribers and to promote a giveaway.
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During December, I teamed up with authors Autumn Birt and P.H. Solomon to run Facebook ads in order to gain subscribers.
The way we did this was by giving away one book each, and sharing the subscribers among ourselves.
Autumn set everything up, and she did a wonderful job. We spent $1 daily each, and ended up with 85 new subscribers at a cost of $30. This means that each subscriber cost us just $0.35.
The only drawback with this model is that there is no tripwire page. Which means there’s not even the possibility of you recouping the money spent on the ads.
Incidentally, we…
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And I’d add a 6th sense – what does something “feel” like, the emotional sense, so to speak. A most important addition in my book.
The more we can evoke emotions as a writer, the more we’re going to touch the reader, and isn’t that what we’re all about? 🙂
Welcome back to my mini-series on the five senses. This time we’re working with Smell. I hope today’s post doesn’t turn out to be a stinker. (Okay… sorry. You know I can’t resist a play on words.)
I meant for this installment to be extremely lighthearted, and a scene from Copper, the Alchemist, & the Woman in Trousers quickly came to mind. Descriptive as it may be, it doesn’t really exemplify the point I wanted to make, but for fun, here’s the tidbit from Episode 20 anyway. In this snippet, Felicity, the woman in trousers, is tipsy from the physical reaction Absinthe (the Green Fairy) had when he was abruptly frightened.
Absinthe, the Green Fairy
It was no accident, I thought to myself, that the Green Fairy looked like a tiny green skunk, albeit one with gossamer wings. Much like a frightened…
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Everyone who reads likes Free books, right?
If you like Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce, you’ll like Agnes Kelly. She’s the 1960s American version of Flavia with a love for looking things up.
This is the first in the Agnes Kelly Mystery Series.
And for you teachers out there, it comes with a big list of teacher support materials! Just contact me if you’d like a look-see 🙂
Sign up for my readers group and I’ll also give you your choice of any of my books in an electronic format absolutely FREE!
To connect with my Readers Group, just go to my book site christinekelenybooks.com.
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Always good to remember…
Why not listen to Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett as you give to your favorite charity on #GivingTuesday. (I know it’s a commercial, but I like it anyway and it’s for a bookstore, so hopefully I’ll be forgiven.) I’ve put some literary options here for you, in case these are organizations you’d like to donate to.
Reading is Fundamental
First Book
Proliteracy
Also paypal is adding 1% to your donations today. Take your pick and be generous!
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