Dear Indie Annie nbsp I am desperate to fulfill my dream of being a published writer It s all I ve ever wanted since I was a child which I am embarrassed to say was over five decades ago Is it too late Have I missed the boat I don 8217 t even know where to start Clueless in Calgary hellip
A plethora of AI programs and apps have appeared in the last few years with varying opinions about what they mean for creative industries However some AI tools can be helpful and have already been integrated into daily use for years with little fanfare Otter ai a popular transcription service that operates using AI is one hellip
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It s a brand new year and if you haven t done it already it s a great time to make a plan for your author business If you re a plotter you probably already know plenty of planning methods like the back of your heart for outlining your novel from Save the Cat to the Snowflake Method But hellip
Everything You Might ve Missed at the 2022 Conference From Official Events to Connections Made at the Cake Machine IAM Staff Five days Fifty two vendors Nearly eighteen hundred in person attendees with even more tuning in virtually By many accounts the 20Books Vegas 2022 conference that took place November 14 18 at Bally s Events Center in you guessed it Las hellip
Children s author Marti Dumas https martidumasbooks com is an indie publisher who started her career with a clear mission to provide specific books for specific readers In some ways her mission hasn t changed at all When her six year old ran out of books and started taking Jonathan Swift off the family bookcase Dumas decided to write an age appropriate hellip
What author doesn t dream of becoming a millionaire Every writer wishes to have a tremendous income straight from their books along with thousands of adoring readers The mountain it takes to achieve such a pinnacle however can seem long and daunting especially to authors who struggle to sell single copies of their title These elusive hellip
Not everyone makes a New Year 8217 s resolution but the people who do usually focus on health and wellness Last year 23 percent of Americans aimed to live healthier in the new year making it the most popular resolution in 2022 according to Statista As an indie author it s great to concentrate on your 2023 business hellip
Ever popular the Action Adventure story is the original hero s journey a protagonist who must go on a quest to a new world and fight demons both inner and outer along the way With such flexible parameters the genre is one that often must share the spotlight whether it crosses with Fantasy and Sci Fi epics Thrillers Mysteries or hellip
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After years of failing to keep my New Year s resolutions I gave up nbsp But that s not to say that I gave up on making life changes I stopped with the grand declarations followed by the inevitable failure and instead I thought about the reasons those changes were significant to me Those underlying reasons became a hellip
Kick off the New Year with a podcast designed to get you moving Every episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast is filled with the motivation and tactics you need plus deeply personal stories relatable topics and tactical research backed advice to help you create a better life https www melrobbins com podcast
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While not technically a podcast most of these videos can be listened to without losing any of the great information They re broken up into playlists including the Five Minute Focus and the presentations from nearly every 20Booksto50K conference https www youtube com 20Booksto50kRLiveEvents
I opened the revisions file from my editor on my latest work in progress and was surprised by the number one item on her list The protagonist is launching a business she wrote Why isn t she working on her website having business cards made handing out flyers anything I was slightly insulted Of course my character hellip
I have an honest confession to make I ve been staring at my computer for a few minutes now trying to figure out what I want this letter to say I ve fallen victim to the Curse of the Blank Page plenty of times When editing is part of your day job it makes it difficult to hellip
More than a month has passed since 20Books Vegas 2022 came to an end The nearly two thousand authors who attended have returned home and come down from the high of participating in the biggest indie author conference in the world But for those same attendees the lessons and new friends that came from the hellip
Volunteers Behind This Year s 20Books Vegas Say Giving Their Time Is Its Own Reward At the 20Books Vegas 2022 conference the 6 a m volunteer shift buzzes with energy People from all corners of the world run off in groups to unload swag from vehicles unpack notebooks and prepare their stations I was lucky enough to hellip
Children s Author Publisher Darcy Pattison Builds Her Brand with the Youngest Readers in Mind Ten years ago children s author Darcy Pattison faced a dilemma After publishing with multiple traditional publishers Lothrup Lee amp Shepard Harcourt Inc Sylvan Dell Publishers Philomel and Stone Arch Books from 1991 to 2011 she couldn t find the right home for a nonfiction picture hellip
This past month more than eighteen hundred independent authors gathered at Bally s Event Center in Las Vegas Nevada to learn to grow and to celebrate their work as publishing professionals We welcomed them with messages of inspiration and advice for finding success however you define it This month I want to offer that same welcome hellip
Creating an Author Value Statement for the New Year Every year people around the world make grand plans for lifestyle makeovers that are sure to bring them closer to their dreams Six months in more than half of the people who make a resolution will have given it up according to a Discover Happy Habits nbsp hellip
I discovered the beauty of knowing other writers at the Colonists Summit back in 2014 At that conference two dozen writers came together to talk all things writing and publishing I was in heaven nbsp Although I knew about the concept of starving artists and therefore writers I d worked on my overall money consciousness such that hellip
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