Ask the Author: Jessica Bell
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Jessica Bell
Yes of course.
jessica.carmen.bell@gmail.com. 😊
jessica.carmen.bell@gmail.com. 😊
Jessica Bell
Hi Allison,
Welcome to ALLi! You can find lots of great advice about how to market on Goodreads here on the ALLi blog: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/?s=G...
And also here are instructions on how to obtain your Goodreads Author Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/program (Do this first!)
All the best,
Jessica
Welcome to ALLi! You can find lots of great advice about how to market on Goodreads here on the ALLi blog: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/?s=G...
And also here are instructions on how to obtain your Goodreads Author Profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/program (Do this first!)
All the best,
Jessica
Jessica Bell
I have never sent you anything, Sydney. I don't know you from a bar of soap and I really don't know what book list and 'anything' that you're referring to.
Jessica Bell
Hi Steven, I'm afraid not. Sorry!
Jessica Bell
Please post your request in the ALLi goodreads group. Thanks!
Jessica Bell
Hi Jon,
If you join the ALLi Goodreads group, I can address any problems you have in there.
Best,
Jessica
If you join the ALLi Goodreads group, I can address any problems you have in there.
Best,
Jessica
Jessica Bell
Hi Lorenzo,
Good question! I'd say the best thing to do is to study up on the "show, don't tell" technique. Through showing rather than telling, you enable readers to actually FEEL what is going on, instead of just reading about what it going on. For example, notice the difference between the following examples:
Telling:
My mother got drunk again last night and passed out on the sofa. She looks like a disgusting street bum and the house smells like vomit and cigarettes.
Showing:
I watch a glob of drool vibrate in the corner of my mother’s mouth with every breath of air that struggles through her sticky cracked lips. Strands of stiff bleach-blonde hair, clumped together and matted below her ear, look petrified with dried vomit. Her fingers twitch. She has two black nails from when she jammed them in the hinge of the alcohol cabinet door. She groans. One eye opens. A vibrant crystal blue bordered with a yellowy, bloodshot white. Her eye closes, and she sits up, blindly reaching toward the coffee table for her pack of 50s. It’s empty. She scrunches the packet and throws it across the room. It lands between an urn and an empty bottle of gin on the mantle. She opens and closes her mouth in what seems an attempt to rehydrate it, and clicks her tongue, as if tasting something foul.
Hope that helps!
Good question! I'd say the best thing to do is to study up on the "show, don't tell" technique. Through showing rather than telling, you enable readers to actually FEEL what is going on, instead of just reading about what it going on. For example, notice the difference between the following examples:
Telling:
My mother got drunk again last night and passed out on the sofa. She looks like a disgusting street bum and the house smells like vomit and cigarettes.
Showing:
I watch a glob of drool vibrate in the corner of my mother’s mouth with every breath of air that struggles through her sticky cracked lips. Strands of stiff bleach-blonde hair, clumped together and matted below her ear, look petrified with dried vomit. Her fingers twitch. She has two black nails from when she jammed them in the hinge of the alcohol cabinet door. She groans. One eye opens. A vibrant crystal blue bordered with a yellowy, bloodshot white. Her eye closes, and she sits up, blindly reaching toward the coffee table for her pack of 50s. It’s empty. She scrunches the packet and throws it across the room. It lands between an urn and an empty bottle of gin on the mantle. She opens and closes her mouth in what seems an attempt to rehydrate it, and clicks her tongue, as if tasting something foul.
Hope that helps!
Jessica Bell
I can't answer that unless I know what it's about! :)
Jessica Bell
Hi Jason. I think I'm in a perpetual state of anxiety and insecurity when it comes to my writing. No matter how much praise I garner, there is always going to be a voice in my head telling me that I'm not good enough. I think it's a slight case of Impostor Syndrome, and I also believe that every creative person, whether a writer, artist, musician, etc, is going to feel like this a lot of the time. So, I guess there isn't anything really that shakes my confidence except my own sense of myself. I really am my worst critic!
Jessica Bell
Hard Candy. :-) http://www.hardcandyau.com/
Jessica Bell
Nai, mpwrw. Alla den exw pliktrologio sta Ellinika. :-)
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