Category: News (Page 1 of 12)

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Scammers are now using big publishers’ names and trademarks to convince people that they’re legitimate.
• Ways to use audio for marketing (not just podcasts and audiobooks)
• Make sure you aren’t making these mistakes with your passwords.
• Characters are central to a novel. Make sure you get their development right.
• How being a guest on a podcast can help you to sell books.
• Lessons you can learn from binge-watching TV series.
• Why you should hire a formatter to create your print book interior and ebook file.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• You’re a creative person. Use that creativity in your marketing.
• Have you considered publishing your book on Medium?
• Writing a thriller? It’s important to get the pacing right.
• Amazon recently added new tools for those writing a series. Here’s how to use them.
• Authors own the copyright on their work as soon as they write it, but it can be hard to prove. That’s why the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), an agency of the United Nations (UN), created WIPO Proof.
• Even in this age of social media, an email list is still important.
• Are you on Instagram? If not, you might want to be after reading this.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• It’s natural to compare yourself to others, but don’t be too hard on yourself.
• If you’re writing and selling children’s books, this article from the Alliance of Independent Authors should be very useful.
• Suing for copyright infringement can be an expensive business, even if you win.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about choosing a pen name.
• Publishers (and indie authors) need to embrace the opportunities that digital provides, including subscriptions.
• There are lots of benefits to hiring a proofreader.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Watch out for copyright scams claiming that you’re using copyrighted images on your website.
• Amazon made some very smart decisions in the early days, which are now largely forgotten.
• Grammar tip: To italicise or not to italicise?
• Don’t forget your protagonist’s sidekick.
• A new email promotion list has launched: Hello Books.
• An interesting discussion of NFTs, and their similarities to DRM.
• Everything you need to know about launching a book.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Amazon have stated that they will not sell books that “frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.”
• NFTs (digital tokens stored on blockchain) have been in the news a lot recently. Plagiarism Today has a useful primer.
• Eleven ways to rewrite clichés and turn them into something more interesting.
• Why not add an animal character to your novel?
• Should you have a blog or an email list? Or both? Jane Friedman shares her thoughts.
• You may not have realised it, but you’ve always led a writer’s life.
• BookBub have analysed data on their price promotions to see if running them on different days of the week makes a difference.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• If you write crime fiction, or would like to, you should listen to this podcast (or read the transcript).
• Draft2Digital’s Account Sharing feature does exactly what it says on the tin, and it can be very useful. This article explains what it is, why it’s useful, and how to use it.
• The rapid demise of Recipeasly highlights the tension between the desires of content creators and consumers.
• Demographics are useful, but what you really need to know is what your readers care about.
• Amazon now cares more about advertising income than customer experience, and they’re not alone.
• Is there really a distinction between “popular fiction” and “literature”?
• Plan your marketing in advance to reduce your stress.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Want to write YA historical fiction? This will help.
• Deciding on a price for your book can be difficult and even emotional. But David Gaughran is here to help.
• Draft2Digital’s Reading Lists allow you to create curated collections of books.
• Are you ready to publish yourself?
• How a notebook (digital or paper) can help your writing.
• If you like the idea of selling on various stores instead of just Amazon, this is a great guide.
• A strong opening is important, but don’t worry about it until the rest of the book is finished.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Editors can help clients in multiple ways, not all of which are obvious.
• Draft2Digital’s Universal Book Links are a very useful tool. One link for all stores, and they’re geo-targeted, so your readers will go to their local store.
• The subscription model is coming to book publishing, but few are willing to talk about it.
• It’s rare for an author to be sued for libel, but it can be devastating when it happens. Make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
• How launching a second book is different from launching your first.
• The viewpoint character isn’t always the protagonist.
• Dana Stabenow has advice for crime novelists, but warns that it shouldn’t be followed slavishly.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Why you should take a long-term approach to book marketing, and how to do so.
• Draft2Digital have advice to help you create better characters.
• Make sure you’re ready for Facebook’s next big change.
• Be careful when signing over rights. Make sure you know exactly who owns what.
• It’s natural to be jealous of another’s success. But here’s how to deal with that feeling constructively.
• Clichés to avoid when writing about single characters.
• How to write a novel based on the retelling of a myth.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Risking their trust, privacy and possibly their safety, Amazon have outed some authors’ pen names.
• The issue of accessibility has become more visible in publishing recently, but there’s still a long way to go.
• Metadata: what it is, why it’s important, and how to create it.
• How TikTok can be used in book marketing.
• How to make money by giving books away for free.
• Audible’s payments to authors and narrators are horribly opaque. The Alliance of Independent Authors have shed some light on them.
• Fake literary agent scams seem to be on the increase. Here’s how to spot them.

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