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“Who would you like to become, and how will you know when”
― Book Marketing is Dead: book promotion secrets you MUST know BEFORE you publish your book
― Book Marketing is Dead: book promotion secrets you MUST know BEFORE you publish your book
“Merrow have long memories. And remember, we live longer. So while most humans have forgotten the brutality and injustice that led to the merrow wars, the older merrow are still angry. They hate all humans. And now that the royal family is missing… some merrow think it’s time to stop hiding. They argue that the humans are destroying the world, and that it’s our duty to wipe them out.”
“Wait—what?” He’d said the last statement so casually, I almost didn’t grasp its significance. “There are merrow who want to destroy the human race?” I pictured a hundred thousand Sebastians, capable of punching through picnic tables and moving faster than we could even see them. It would be a slaughter. A mermaid apocalypse. I almost laughed at the thought, but the impulse died in my throat. I felt sick. I couldn’t believe I’d wanted to kiss him just a few moments ago.”
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“Wait—what?” He’d said the last statement so casually, I almost didn’t grasp its significance. “There are merrow who want to destroy the human race?” I pictured a hundred thousand Sebastians, capable of punching through picnic tables and moving faster than we could even see them. It would be a slaughter. A mermaid apocalypse. I almost laughed at the thought, but the impulse died in my throat. I felt sick. I couldn’t believe I’d wanted to kiss him just a few moments ago.”
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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” —Louis L’Amour”
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
“But the first book has very little in common with the other two; and the other two are from the same author so OF COURSE they should be identical. That’s not cliché at all, it’s branding!”
― Book Cover Design Secrets You Can Use to Sell More Books
― Book Cover Design Secrets You Can Use to Sell More Books
“Better to be a cliché than to be a failure. Incidentally, I’ve played this scenario out a dozen times with clients. They want something simple, suggestive, symbolic. I tell them to choose something obvious. A powerful, beautiful picture that hits all the right genre buttons. They insist, we finish the cover, six months later they decide they are frustrated with their low sales and they give me permission to redo the cover and make the design that will sell the best. Are my book covers clichés? Probably. They also sell a lot of copies.”
― Book Cover Design Secrets You Can Use to Sell More Books
― Book Cover Design Secrets You Can Use to Sell More Books
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” —Richard Bach”
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
“My own goal is to find readers of my genre and turn them into raving fans by over-delivering on their expectations and giving them a satisfying reading experience.”
― Guerrilla Publishing: a sleaze-free guide to writing and book marketing
― Guerrilla Publishing: a sleaze-free guide to writing and book marketing
“Then the room was spinning and I was hugging people, and crying—all at the same time, in a blur of warm orange lights and friendly faces and music that touched my soul. I”
― Shearwater
― Shearwater
“Too much empty enthusiasm can even be demotivating, if not supported by the right skills and a lot of elbow grease.”
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
“Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.” —Michelle M. Pillow, Dragon Lords”
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
“A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.”
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
“Generally, for most fiction, there are three foolproof layouts you can use. One, a flat landscape picture, hopefully at least with a humanizing element (a garment, object, footsteps... something that refers to a character – because without character there is no story). Two, a landscape picture with a character in it; either in the foreground or background. Smaller figures for more epic stories with bigger landscapes; bigger characters for more action and character-driven stories. Three, a face on top and a landscape on the bottom. These”
― Guerrilla Publishing: a sleaze-free guide to writing and book marketing
― Guerrilla Publishing: a sleaze-free guide to writing and book marketing
“Find indirect, long term marketing strategies that center on building an author brand and platform.”
― Guerrilla Publishing: a sleaze-free guide to writing and book marketing
― Guerrilla Publishing: a sleaze-free guide to writing and book marketing
“while fiction books are about setting, characters and emotion that appeal to the heart (which can be achieved with pictures and colors) non-fiction books are about ideas that appeal to the head. So for some non-fiction, you need a clever, non-obvious juxtaposition of things that represents your topic.”
― Book Cover Design Secrets You Can Use to Sell More Books
― Book Cover Design Secrets You Can Use to Sell More Books
“Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that’s the hard part.” —Jay Taylor, The Rise Of Majick”
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
― How to write and publish a book on a budget
