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Novel Marketing And Christian Publishing With Thomas Umstattd Jr.

The Creative Penn

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. is the CEO of AuthorMedia.com , an award-winning professional speaker, nonfiction author, and host of the Novel Marketing Podcast and the Christian Publishing Show. Thomas Umstattd Jr.

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Publishing Books For Children And Profitable School Visits With Tonya Ellis

The Creative Penn

In the intro, investment firm KKR will buy Simon & Schuster [ Publishing Perspectives ]; Subscriber Surge Giveaways [ Written Word Media ]; Key Book Publishing Paths [ Jane Friedman ]. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system.

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Find the Blog Posting Frequency that Works for You

Express Writers

The survey shows the average blog post is 77% longer in 2023 than it was in 2013. In late 2022, Google released an algorithm update that added an ‘E’ to the SEO acronym EAT. If you can produce and publish a high-quality blog every day, that’s awesome. Just make sure whatever you publish is the best it can be.

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Lessons Learned from 12 Years as an Author Entrepreneur

The Creative Penn

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. I was so scared of publishing it and when I was about to hit Launch on the Kickstarter back in February, my heart was hammering.

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Author Platform Is Not a Requirement to Sell Your Novel or Children’s Book

Jane Friedman

Recently an article was published at Vox titled “Everyone’s a sellout now.” But specifically, for writers and book publishing, it spreads so many myths and misconceptions about the business of authorship that I’ll be undoing the damage for years. (My The agent or publisher has to have genuine enthusiasm for the story or writing itself.

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Appetite for writing self-punishment

Ben Settle

I rewrote it from start to finish a few months ago after finishing the screenplay for it, and realizing the screenplay was way better than the novel I wrote in 2013…) version of my first novel Zombie Cop which will be re-published soon. He encouraged me to just start writing as it sounded like something he’d want to read.

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The Craft And Business Of Writing Non-Fiction Books With Stephanie Chandler

The Creative Penn

Show Notes Changes in publishing and marketing for nonfiction authors over time and what still works How to stand out and build your community Content marketing and long-term marketing strategies Deciding what nonfiction book to write—should you stay in your lane? I sent proposals to three publishers, and Wiley gave me a book deal.

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