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September 28, 2018 RobertSmithThrillers has expanded to a new site: Patreon. Patreon is a fantastic platform that allows writers, bloggers, and various artists to share their work with fans and public. The site helps to promote interest and support for a creator's work. I look forward to regularly writing new material and sharing it with …
I like to read concise book reviews that are specific and don't contain spoilers. Answer a few questions for me and be done. What did you like about the book; did you dislike anything? Be balanced. No book is all good or all bad. Tell me about the writing, the storyline, and characters. Were the …
Build Your Author Platform with the Easy Hub and Spoke System via http://bookmarketingtools.com Confused about your author platform, why you need it, and how to build it? Lucky for you, author Carmen Amato makes it easy for you in this guest post. She shows you exactly what you need to do to build your platform. …
Excellent post Michael, thank you for sharing. I’m going to try and spread it a little further.
All the best!
This is a response to my earlier post called Why Your Query Letter is Making Agents and Editors Cringe. I’m so meta, right?
Writing a query letter is an art, they say. What they really mean is that it’s really gosh-darn hard. It seems that everyone and their sister thinks they can write a query letter, but out in the real world, it fails. Miserably.
That’s what happened to me. I thought writing a query letter was easy. I composed one in a couple hours and unleashed it onto the world. Little did I know, it was crap and yielded no return. It wasn’t until I joined the Absolute Write and participated in their forum that I was able to learn how to write a query letter properly.
Now, I shall bestow my knowledge upon you.
Step One: Write a Manuscript
A given, right? Wrong. I am a big advocate that writers complete…
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From the Leeland Artra interview on bookmarketingtools.com Intro He’s a software engineer by day and a science fiction and fantasy writer by night. His most notable works include Thread Slivers and Thread Strands from the Golden Threads trilogy. Both books have been a consistent feature in various top 100 Amazon lists. However, it’s his marketing …
Are you ready to become a WordPress ninja? by Tom Ewer For the well-initiated, WordPress a pretty intuitive Content Management System (CMS). Those of us who have been using it for a while can get around it with ease. But cast your mind back to when you were a beginner. I distinctly remember being rather …
5 Steps to Building a Better Blog by Derek Halpern How can you take your blog from zero to hero? Follow these 5 simple steps and you’re set. How do I know? Zero to hero rhymes. Sort of. And if it rhymes, it must be true! (Case in point: no pain… no gain) Step 1: …
How To Use Scrivener To Write A Book via Natasha Lester @ http://www.natashalester.com.au Scrivener is the best writing tool I have ever come across. I credit it with helping me to write faster, with causing me less writing stress, with helping me plan out a book more than I would ordinarily and with making the …
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To publish an e-book can be challenging yet interesting. To sell an e-book is critical. Though the trend of self-publishing across the world has radically heightened, when readers can’t find that high interest upon looking at your book, there is no way for them to buy it. Impress your prospect readers The best way to …
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Tweet, Tweet — Twiddle, Twiddle, here comes another plot with a hole in the middle.
If you fail to explain how A connects to B, or state something that doesn’t make sense (without explanation), then you have left a plot hole.
You want your readers to get swept away in your story and be completely immersed. A plot hole can destroy that experience. If the reader drops out of the ride, in order to examine something that doesn’t make sense, you’ve lost them.
You may be too close to the story to see the holes. As you read through it, those gaps may be appear bridged, since the story did come from your head. The answers to those questions are in your noggin, so it doesn’t seem off. Have someone else read through your book, to make sure you didn’t leave any plot holes.
Remember, the reader badly wants to…
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Disjointed Jottings by Robert Smith (A.K.A. TyCobbsTeeth) 