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10 Myths About Writing Fiction eBooks
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These are my own personal list. Remember writers, when folks express disbelief at your story: tell them ‘fiction’ means I made it up. Then tell them to go see PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4. They’ll think you’re a bloody genius then. 1) eBOOKS ARE A TECHNOLOGICAL FAD: Fact is, eBooks are beginning to outsell hard
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The Importance of Titles
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Presently, I’m completing by 3rd firefighter novel. I think a wrap up should do it, but one never knows where the creative process may lead. The original title was FIRE & ICE until a quick Google took me to hundreds of books, games, poems, etc, with the same name. Standing out as an eBook is
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| (Published: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:40:40 +0000) |
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Grammar in eBooks Down The Tubes?
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Without traditional publishers assigning editors to new authors, who’s watching the grammar store? Whenever I’m ready to do a detailed edit on a manuscript I run the word search for was and that and had especially had been. Usually, I find far too many of them. Their elimination forces a writer to restructure the sentence
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| (Published: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:06:03 +0000) |
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The Next eBook Trend
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Harry Potter may be gone but in his wake are scores of copy cats complete with dragons, witches, talking animals, mysterious planets/cities, nether worlds. The situations/topics are in YA and juvenile/MG writing. Has this run its course? There’s always Zombies. One synopsis I read was something like : ‘these Zombies are different; they’re good Zombies’.
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| (Published: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:55:21 +0000) |
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Are give away campaigns effective for eBooks?
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So since I’m marketing my dad’s ebook Old Flames, I need to find the best way to market it. What is the best way? Low budget of course. So far I’m starting giveaways. I am advertising the giveaway on Goodreads and Facebook. Trying to get as many people to write reviews of the books as possible.
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| (Published: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:57:09 +0000) |
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Marketing your eBook
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I was thinking about how the best of the best market their ebooks for several reasons. First I read that some unknown authors were selling their ebooks for 2.99 each, but selling 10,000-25,000 each month which works out to big money. Like $25,000 per month big money. So what’s the best way. I found this
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| (Published: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:40:58 +0000) |
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Editing in eBooks
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Chances of having anything rejected when submitting eBooks is slim as there are no gatekeepers. I’ve noticed the popular ebooks are the best edited. Usually it’s easy to tell from the synopsis beside the book cover what the rest of the story will look like. It’s difficult to find an editor who will catch everything
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| (Published: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:44:32 +0000) |
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Marketing eBooks
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In my own situation, I have 3 novels online–two juveniles and one adult eBook mystery–and am trying to get noticed. I’ve placed a free eBook (a short story) to try and get people over to my website or peruse my novels. Also, I have the ability to give people free downloads of any of my
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| (Published: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:15:39 +0000) |
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How to market your eBook?
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So the big question is how to market your eBook from a basic eBook to a great eBook. What do you choose? Pay per click marketing? Giveaways? Free samples? Let’s look at some statistics from Smashwords. So first we should think about the source= Smashwords. They did the survey on mobilereads. So we can assume it’s not
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| (Published: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:43 +0000) |
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Giving up on traditional publishers
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Some time ago, I had a verbal arrangement with an agent (now deceased) who proposed: you read my property and I’ll read yours. The story concerned a young boy whose father had escaped from jail and everyone in town wondered if this man would come back and steal away the boy and get vengeance on
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| (Published: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:26:19 +0000) |
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