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Get Moving: 5 Great Workouts for Writers

Filed in Author Inspirations, Writing Tips by Erika Bennett on July 14, 2020 • 0 Comments

As a writer, there’s no way to avoid spending large amounts of time sitting at the computer. All that sitting, however, can lead to bad posture, tight muscles, body soreness, and a whole host of other issues. Exercise of any kind is great to combat all the desk sitting, but we’ve pulled together 5 great […]

Planning a Christmas Book Release? Here’s Why You Should Launch Early.

Filed in Marketing Your Book by Brittnee Newman on July 8, 2020 • 0 Comments

So what’s the big deal about books at Christmas? Well, at the risk of sounding like a broken record: in any normal calendar year, Christmas is the biggest book-buying season of the year. Now, 2020 has attempted to put that to the test with record-shattering book sales every month since March, at one point skyrocketing […]

Open Versus Closed Writing Critique Groups

Filed in Author Inspirations, Writing Tips by Daylin on June 30, 2020 • 0 Comments

Open Critique Groups Open writing critique groups are open to everyone who wishes to join with no restrictions in regards to age, writing genre, writing experience, group participation, meeting attendance, group size, or anything else in that matter. There are also typically little to no rules beyond common courtesy. PROS Flexibility: Attendance to meetings–whether virtual […]

Tips for Your First Book Signing Event

Filed in Book Signings and Events, Marketing Your Book by Daylin on June 16, 2020 • 0 Comments

Your hard work of writing your manuscript and self-publishing has all led to this moment: releasing your book. Now, it’s time to plan a book signing event. It takes a lot of thought and effort to make a book signing event a success. To lighten the load, we’ve compiled a list of tips to help […]

How to Create a Visual Experience in Your Writing

Filed in Writing Tips by Erika Bennett on June 11, 2020 • 0 Comments

When writing, it’s so easy to get bogged down with dialogue, plot lines, verb tense, and comma placement. We can get so caught up with that we can forget to push our creative boundaries. Becoming fixated on punctuation can cause our descriptions to go flat. Other times, we may avoid using symbolism in writing because […]