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How To Write a Best Seller – Advice From an Olympic Medal Winner A guest post by Dr John Yeoman of Writers Village Tell me, how should I have answered this email? ‘Dear Sir or Mdm I dremed of being writer since I was litle. I have a realy good story it realy… |
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Three Keys to Spectacular Guest Posting Success A guest post by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Note: If this subject interests you, then you should register for the free live training event that we’re holding next week! Got a new blog? Want to grow it to mammoth… |
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You say Potato, I Say Potato, You Say Tomato, I Say Book Sales Kath here. We’re thrilled that novelist Liz Michalski is back to guest with us! Liz’s last guest post with us was just terrific, and we’re so pleased she agreed to return and discuss a quite unusual way of marketing your… |
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Characters Welcome Today’s guest is bestselling Kindle author Kathleen Shoop. Her second historical fiction novel, After the Fog, is set in 1948 Donora, Pennsylvania. The mill town’s ”killing smog” was one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, triggering clean air advocacy and eventually, the Clean Air Act. Kathleen’s debut… |
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I’ve Got a Secret Kath here. Please welcome back Ellen Weeren to WU today. Ellen’s first post on Writer Unboxed was called Believing We Have a Story to Tell. She graduated from college with a BA in Writing, but took time off from creative… |
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Write Like a Comparative Mythologist Kath here. Please welcome back L. B. Gale to WU. The response to her first guest post with us was so positive, we asked her back for another, and happily, she agreed! L.B. works in education as a literacy specialist in New… |
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Independent Booksellers Nimbly Stay Afloat Therese here. It’s the second Thursday of the month, which means it’s #IndieThursday—a day dedicated to independent bookstores here at Writer Unboxed. Today’s guest is historical author and creative writing coach Cynthia Morris, a former bookseller with Denver’s Capitol Hill Books–a… |
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How to Succeed in Writing When You’re Not an Expert in Anything A guest post by Carol Tice from Make a Living Writing Do you worry that you aren’t qualified to be a writer? I frequently have writers tell me they feel their chances of earning well from writing are doomed, because they’re… |
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Seven Out-of-the-Box Author Blogging Ideas Therese here. Please welcome today’s guest, Shari Stauch. Shari is the CEO of Shark Marketing Co. and has been involved in publishing, marketing and PR for 33 years. As president of Charleston’s Center for Women, she moderates the Women Writers Forum, and… |
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How to Find Your Daily Writing Motivation A guest post by James Chartrand of Men with Pens You know the deal: If you want to get better at writing, you need to write. Preferably daily. Preferably at the same time every day. But uuuuuugh. What if you’re… |
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It’s Time to Start Your Novel: Here’s Why A Guest Post by Ali Luke of Aliventures.com You’ve had the seed of a novel in your head for months now. Maybe it’s a plot idea (“What if..?”) Maybe it’s a character. Maybe it’s simply the thought of writing something that’d… |
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We’re Expecting…Books! Therese here. Today’s guest is soon-to-be-author Amy Sue Nathan, whose debut novel, The Glass Wives, will be published in 2013 by St. Martin’s Press. Amy runs a blog I enjoy called Women’s Fiction Writers, where she interviews authors of women’s fiction and… |
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Three Core Elements of Storytelling (And Why You Need To Write Stories Right Away) By Sean D’Souza of Psychotactics.com Think of a story. Any story. Maybe just Cinderella, for instance. What does it bring up right away to your mind? 1) Sequence 2) Suspense and 3) The roller coaster Stories are like magic lamps.… |
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Own the Crazy Therese here. If it’s a terrible thing to love the terrible mind of Chuck Wendig (of the blog Terrible Minds, for those of you who don’t know him) then Kath and I are terrible. Chuck’s blog is full of great… |
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Own the Crazy Therese here. If it’s a terrible thing to love the terrible mind of Chuck Wendig (of the blog Terrible Minds, for those of you who don’t know him) then Kath and I are terrible. Chuck’s blog is full of great… |
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Hiring a Freelance Editor: A Step-by-Step Guide A guest post by Tiffany T. Cole of Reader’s Den Why should you hire a freelance editor? This is definitely the eBook age. According to the Association of American Publishers’ report, ‘E-book sales continue to break records with a +164.4%… |
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15 Ways to Write Tight A guest post by Barb Sawyers You’re busy, I know. So are the people you want to be read by. Then why do you go on and on? Why does it take so long to take get to the point? Why… |
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What Did My Years as an Agent Bring to My Writing? Kath here. Today’s guest is literary agent and author Jean Naggar. Jean was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She grew up in Cairo, moving to England, and then New York City, where she currently resides. She is the founder of the prominent Jean… |
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7 Resources to Take Your Writing to the Next Level A guest post by Tabita Green of Live Simply Enough I am a writer. I am also an Internet marketing consultant, mother, wife, reader, runner, and musician. Pretty much every part of my life has a writing component. I write… |
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What I’ve Learned About Writing a Novel Today’s guest is Sarah Pekkanen, the internationally bestselling author of three novels. Her latest, These Girls, a richly woven tale of friendship, was released April 10th and has received praise from authors Jodi Picoult and Jen Lancaster. “Sarah Pekkanen’s latest… |
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The Community Behind the Independent Bookstore Therese here. It’s the second Thursday of the month, which means it’s #IndieThursday–a day dedicated to independent bookstores here and at Beyond the Margins, an esteemed blog we hope you’ll add to your daily visits. I’m honored to introduce a… |
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On Pushing Yourself to Be Better Therese here. Today’s guest is a former monthly contributor with Writer Unboxed, NYT’s bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. I’m so pleased to have her back here today to celebrate the release of her new novel, The Song Remains the Same.… |
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The Writer’s Life is Full of Second Chances (or: Abandon Despair, All Ye Who Enter Here) Heads up: Today’s post is one of the most inspirational I’ve ever read here on Writer Unboxed. (Therese here, by the way.) I’m so pleased to bring you our guest blogger, author Robin LaFevers. Robin is a multi-published author and… |
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Beyond the Cliché: How to Create Characters that Fascinate By Becca Puglisi of The Bookshelf Muse How many characters have been created since the first story was told? Thousands? Gajillions? With so many characters floating around out there, it’s not surprising that many of them have been recycled over time:… |
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The Action / Tension / Emotion Ratio Therese here. I’m so pleased to bring you today’s returning guest and all around awesome human being, author Michelle Diener. Last year, Michelle’s debut novel, In a Treacherous Court, was published by the Gallery Books imprint of Simon & Schuster.… |
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The Headline Breath Test By Sean D’Souza of PsychoTactics.com Do long headlines work? Or are short headlines better? The answer doesn’t lie in length. It lies in the ability to say the headline aloud in one breath. Let’s assume you sit down and write… |
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The Promise Please welcome today’s guest, Jennifer Gooch Hummer. Jennifer is the debut author of a YA novel called Girl Unmoored. What’s the book about? Apron Bramhall has come unmoored. It’s 1985 and her mom has passed away, her evil stepmother is pregnant,… |
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(A Writer’s) Age Is Just A Number Kath here. Today’s guest is WU community member Mary Incontro. Mary is a former federal prosecutor hard at work on her first novel, a work of legal fiction. During her career as a reporter on Capitol Hill, an attorney and public… |
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How to Create a Story Structure to Die for A guest post by PJ Reece of PjReece.ca Prose is architecture, not interior decorating.” ~ Ernest Hemingway A story works because of its architecture. By “works” I mean it stands up. It holds together. It’s true. Structure provides a framework… |
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How Writing against the Grain Creates a Niche Kath here. Today’s guest is C. Hope Clark. She is editor of FundsforWriters, selected by Writer’s Digest for its 101 Best Websites for Writers for the past eleven years. She’s been industrious in platform building and social media outreach, and her… |
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How Much Should You Write Every Day? A Guest Post by Ali Luke of Aliventures.com Ask a dozen different writers “How much do you write each day?” and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Some will only work at weekends. Some will consider 500 words a great… |
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