Dear Indie Annie I love my characters I love seeing them live out their lives and making wonderful things happen to them But my critique partner says my story is boring as nothing bad ever happens How can I make my story more interesting without being mean to my characters Help Nice in Newcastle DEAR hellip
On April 13th Amazon s Kindle Direct Publishing KDP announced a new program Kindle Vella a home for serial stories Like Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Worlds before it indie authors around the world have shown enormous interest in the upcoming program which is due to launch this summer But like all Amazon programs we authors are hellip
When writing your novel you want a program that can contain all the amazing ideas that are swirling around in your brain in one place Literature amp Latte s Scrivener is designed to do just that More than just a word processor it provides a place to plot your novel write it hold all your research hellip
Done is better than perfect Just finish the thing You can t edit a blank page All great advice for writers when they re in the middle of the first draft slog Keep going But what happens when the words literally won t come When the muse won t show up Common advice for when you 8217 ve got writer 8217 s block hellip
Clubhouse is the latest social media platform It s an audio only platform where people engage in conversation in groups called rooms Some rooms invite everyone to participate whereas in others you re only a listener You can select your interests to help Clubhouse identify the content you want to see in your Hallway the main page but hellip
How Hard won Words Launched Her Career and What She 8217 s Learned Since We ve all heard the expression blood sweat and tears I ve put my blood sweat and tears into this project This month we will meet an author who did exactly that Let me introduce Jami Albright Every week authors around the world can catch an hellip
Drafting is how we get books Books are our business This means drafting is our business Finishing our drafts is our top priority No finished draft no book No book no readers The perfect first draft that great inspired work that flows from the divine muse through us onto the page is a myth Perfection hellip
You have committed to writing a book worked out the characters what s going to happen to them The world is verdant and fleshed out in your head and you re ready to write But fifty thousand words feels like too much You have a fulltime job kids to feed and nurture so they don t go feral hellip
We ve all read that publishing fast can be one of the drivers for a successful indie publishing career In fact there are writers who consistently produce a book a month But how do they do that What single factor enables these people to write 80 000 words in four weeks Apart from an outline the consensus hellip
A logo is an asset that every author should consider having in their marketing repertoire Your logo will be one of the key indicators of your brand It will be one of the first things readers see when visiting your website or your social media profiles When deciding on your logo ask yourself whether it hellip
Alfred Hitchcock famously said 8220 I think everyone enjoys a nice murder provided he is not the victim 8221 In reality there is no such thing as a nice murder or a perfect murder but in writing there can be the right murder The death that best suits the victim 8217 s or killer s character situation motives and place hellip
What makes a book an urban fantasy and not merely contemporary fantasy It comes down to genre tropes Every genre has its specific set of tropes that define it from others Readers may not be able to name the tropes or be consciously aware of them however their subconscious mind will recognize them and determine hellip
Does your creativity wane when you need it to wax Are you staring at a blank page with no inspiration and a deadline Do you feel frustrated cranky and tired No need to despair you have not been abandoned by your muse you are probably just dehydrated Multiple studies have shown even mild dehydration results in hellip
In this issue we re continuing to follow the basic process of creating a book Outlining last time First Drafts this It seems like a fairly straightforward topic However our writers and editors have crafted some fascinating articles we expect will provide you with some new strategies to incorporate into your drafting workflow Planning to use hellip
When the shine of a new story idea fades and the muddy middle beckons it is easy to lose interest especially with a shaky or problematic plot Giving up would be easy to do so how do we keep going The actions in the middle often depend on the story s outcome When the two cannot hellip
After the excitement of Outlining that first glimmer of the idea that 8217 s going to be the most amazing story ever we come to First Drafts It 8217 s time to roll up our sleeves and do the hard work One of the hardest parts of writing a novel is finding time to write Time is our most hellip
What is collaboration When two authors love each other very much Okay they don t have to love each other but the best collaborations do emerge from professional relationships based on trust respect and reliability Author collaboration has many faces Whichever method of collaboration you are considering the important thing to remember is that this is hellip
Before I get to this month s topic I want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in our launch Seeing how the indie author community embraced the magazine reassures us that this is something we need So thank you to each of you who came to our launch party bought a subscription hellip
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Hosted by Mark Desvaux and Mark Stay Could you write and publish a Bestseller in one year That s exactly what our two crash test authors did Now it s your turn Join the two Marks in their weekly podcast as they talk with leading lights from the publishing industry million selling chart topping authors who collectively have sold over hellip
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