by Bede | May 10, 2024 | Brand Management
Your social media presence is often the first point of contact for your brand online, so it’s important to be purposeful in how your profiles portray you. Even though social media can sometimes feel like an intimidating snowball of doom, it can also be a great way to...
by Bede | May 8, 2024 | Digital Publishing
As I often tell authors, the good news about book promotion is the same as the bad news: There’s always something more you can be doing for your book. This means that, on one hand, you always have the opportunity to reach new readers, no matter how long your book has...
by Bede | May 6, 2024 | Writing Tips
If you want to write a good sentence, don’t pay any attention to your grammar. I don’t mean “a sentence this like OK is.” I mean don’t automatically think you’ve written a good sentence just because it’s grammatically correct. Lots of bad sentences are grammatically...
by Bede | May 3, 2024 | Book Publishing
Writers usually worry about the ways to get their books out there for people to purchase and read. Although a printed book is usually considered the best form of publishing, because it is easy for people to collect the material and even study overtime; however, in...
by Bede | May 1, 2024 | Process Improvement
Whether you curl up with memoirs on a frequent basis or pick one up every now and again, you know powerful memoirs have the capacity to take you, as a reader, for an exhilarating ride. I’m a connoisseur of memoirs. In the past seven years, I might have read three...
by Bede | Apr 29, 2024 | Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Digital Publishing, ePublications
Basketball, Baseball and Football are team sports, and so is book writing and publishing. The process is a conglomerate of brains and experts who work together to get the manuscript from the author’s desk into the hands of readers. Wondering how some books get...
by Bede | Apr 22, 2024 | Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Writing Tips
In a previous post, From Author to Reader: The Line of Book Publishing, we examined the stages of book publishing. The process is a conglomerate of brains and experts who work together to get the manuscript from the author’s desk into the hands of the reader....
by Bede | Apr 15, 2024 | Writing Tips
I’m sure it’s happened to you. You’re chatting with someone — perhaps on the bus, or at a kitchen party — and you mention you’re working on a book. Before you can even talk about the idea, they’re already responding. “Oh yeah,” they say, “I’ve got a killer idea for a...
by SOIPP | Apr 8, 2024 | Writing Tips
Do you have any original writing ideas? A lot of artists struggle with originality. Of course, we all want to be original, but is it possible? Is there anything new under the sun? Some say there are no new stories, just remixed and rehashed versions of stories we’re...
by Bede | Apr 1, 2024 | Writing Tips
Writers spend most of their days stuck in their own heads. More than any other occupation, writing requires creative thoughts and emotions that warp reality. As writers, these wild imaginations are valuable. But they can also distract us, fill us with fear, and...
