Posts Tagged ‘novel writing’

Welcome to our weekly guest column by Ezra Barany, the Book Mentor and author of the bestselling novel The Torah Codes. He offers indie novelists important tips, entirely under our control, to help our books be discovered by readers all over the world. This week he focuses on how to write the perfect pitch to sell your novel in person.

Welcome back to the Friday Artist Entrepreneur column. Today I tell it like it is. Even though there are no excuses about getting to my writing, boy do I have them.

Extra! Welcome to another Indie Author spotlight this week, an article on how to research your novel by author Kay Keppler. Kay Keppler writes smart, funny contemporary romance, and other fun stuff. Her story on how she did research for her Vegas-based book is fun and informative. Enjoy! PS. Oh, be sure to visit her blog for a chance to win one of my writing books and many other fabulous prizes.

Many authors think life is a riddle. And they’re right. They also think that making a lot of money from a novel is difficult. That’s also true. But there are simple ways to make a lot of book sales, and if you just follow these few tips, you can make a lot of money from [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy this post from one of our monthly columnist, Bobbye Terry.
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Is Time Travel Science Fiction?
Not too long ago, the owner of one of my listservs asked this question: is time travel classified as science fiction? There were mixed answers, but many proclaiming to be science fiction purists said “no.” This, to me, makes no [...]

Many authors think that getting a compelling book done is a matter of finding the time to do all the necessary research, or figuring out the best plot, or spending a lot of time on developing characters, but actually the real problem is having no support, no mentor, and no accountability. Notice how doing all [...]

The character we love to hate. I write fantasy and paranormal, so yeah, the villain, is kind of important. I did some fancy footwork to not have a huge villain in the first book in my series. I have a bad guy; he shows up. Henrietta The Dragon Slayer faces him; stuff happens. I don’t [...]

Last week I shared about how to get clear on our character’s motivation. If your readers don’t “get” your readers it is often because they don’t understand her.
This week I want to focus in how another aspect of character development: the details.
With details, you can relay a character’s voice, share a bit of back story, [...]

Welcome back guest columnist, Bobbye Terry, as she reveals why we need to axe our backstory. What do you think about backstory?
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Ah, a round of applause for the backstory, all of that information that you, the writer, painstakingly put together to understand what makes your characters tick. If it weren’t for all those events from the past, [...]

As I stated in yesterday’s post, many of us read to escape. As authors it’s our job to provide that escape to our readers. Many authors get caught up in telling the reader about an experience. But actually what creates the experience of escape is allowing us to feel the story.

It’s that time of year again, boys and girls, to take up the National Novel  Writing Month escapade. And for the first time, I will be doing “it.”
But with my own twist.
I’ve designed my own Query Challenge, actually started a few days ago.
Goal: Submit one query a day, and log my time, and my success [...]

We’re once again at Except Thursday. I just decided that today I would excerpt again from Donald Maass’ The Fire In Fiction, the book I’m currently reading. Why? I’m inspired by Maass’ book. Reading it makes me want to work on my novel. I hope it can inspire you too to work on your novel.