Ask the Author: Ann Werner
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Ann Werner
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Ann Werner
I would recommend Crazy or Dreams and Nightmares. Both are thrillers. Check out the customer reviews on Amazon and take it form there!
Ann Werner
First thing you do is upload a picture of the book cover (I'll tell you why later). Then I go to the copy of the book I uploaded to Create Space and copy the first chapter and paste it into my Facebook status. Then I add the links (you can shorten them by going to bitly.com so they are a mile long). I usually do an Amazon link first, since they are the #1 source of sales, then a Barnes and Noble link, then a Smashwords link. I also include that the title is available on iBooks but there is no link I could find for that.
The reason you do the cover picture first is if you don't, then one of the links will wind up being your featured pic and will take whomever is reading the post to that link. So if you have a Barnes and Nobel person who has a Nook, but your link is Amazon, if they click the pic, it'll go straight to Amazon. With the separate links, it saves people time from having to look for the book on whatever site where they purchase their books.
Here's one of my Facebook posts and what a shortened bitly link looks like: http://on.fb.me/1TT5jM6
The reason you do the cover picture first is if you don't, then one of the links will wind up being your featured pic and will take whomever is reading the post to that link. So if you have a Barnes and Nobel person who has a Nook, but your link is Amazon, if they click the pic, it'll go straight to Amazon. With the separate links, it saves people time from having to look for the book on whatever site where they purchase their books.
Here's one of my Facebook posts and what a shortened bitly link looks like: http://on.fb.me/1TT5jM6
Ann Werner
That's easy - WRITE! And READ! If you don't like to read, you'll never be a good writer. Have fun when you write because if you don't enjoy yourself, people won't enjoy reading what you've written.
Don't be concerned with whether or not what you've written is good - just get it down on (virtual) paper and it'll take care of itself. You'll go over what you've written many times and you'll keep some things, jettison others and expand on others.
Keep a notepad and a pen handy for when you get a jolt of inspiration and write it down.
Most of all, be true to yourself when writing. Don't try to be someone else. It's okay to model yourself after a favorite author, but don't try to be that author. You have your own unique voice. Let it shine.
Happy writing!
Don't be concerned with whether or not what you've written is good - just get it down on (virtual) paper and it'll take care of itself. You'll go over what you've written many times and you'll keep some things, jettison others and expand on others.
Keep a notepad and a pen handy for when you get a jolt of inspiration and write it down.
Most of all, be true to yourself when writing. Don't try to be someone else. It's okay to model yourself after a favorite author, but don't try to be that author. You have your own unique voice. Let it shine.
Happy writing!
Ann Werner
I got the idea for Cooper's Grove when I visited my hometown on the east coast to attend a wedding. I grew up next door to the person who would become Billy Joe Dean and knew the woman who would become Lucinda Mae Hawkins in the novel. Of course, the characters bear no resemblance to the real life people, but one event took place that provided the inspiration for the novel.
For the longest time I had been wanting to write a ghost story but could never come up with a platform upon which to build it. When I went back for the wedding, I stayed with the groom's sister, who is my best friend. The person Lucinda is modeled after had been widowed and my friend told me the last words her husband spoke to her were: "You watch out for (name withheld). He'll be coming around you now." And voila! I had the platform.
My narrator, Miss Aggie, just seemed to come alive in my head and would not be quiet - which is how she became the voice of the story.
For the longest time I had been wanting to write a ghost story but could never come up with a platform upon which to build it. When I went back for the wedding, I stayed with the groom's sister, who is my best friend. The person Lucinda is modeled after had been widowed and my friend told me the last words her husband spoke to her were: "You watch out for (name withheld). He'll be coming around you now." And voila! I had the platform.
My narrator, Miss Aggie, just seemed to come alive in my head and would not be quiet - which is how she became the voice of the story.
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