I’m No Artist, But…

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. Okay, so I maybe putting the cart before the horse, but I believe in getting a head start when I can. I’m only about half finished with my third book (first draft!) and I’ve been considering cover art. Why? Because [...]

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6 Links For Creating Better Characters

I am not a fan of drama. However, against my better judgement, I took the advice Les Edgerton gives in Hooked and rented Thelma & Louise in order to learn about how to create a “proper” inciting incident and the resulting escalating conflicts. I wish I could say the movie pleasantly surprised me, but it didn’t. [...]

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3 Ways To Boost Potential Book Sales Using Samples

I was recently browsing the blogosphere for eBooks on self-publishing and blogging when I came across Kristen Lamb’s eBook We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. It sounds like a very interesting read based on the blurb at Who Dares Wins Publishing. Will I buy it? Not without a lot of thinking [...]

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From Glimmers to Guts: 7 Steps to Self-Publishing

31 Days to Build a Better Blog, Day 2 — Write a list post with a killer headline. I sometimes wonder how other writers develop their books. Do they plan it all out from the beginning so nothing’s a surprise? Do they “fly by the seat of their pants” and just begin writing? Do they [...]

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Choices, Decisions, and… Cover-ups?

Marketing is an essential element to book sales, but to market a book before it’s finished one must have some kind of cover art to show the masses. Crazy as it seems, I decided to “put the cart before the horse,” so to speak, and design a cover for my newest book before I’ve completed [...]

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The Dangers of Facebook,Myspace

Originally this post was going to be just about the little experiment I’m running on Facebook vs. Myspace. I wanted to have a less subjective (or rather “other’s opinion”) view on which would be the better network to use for marketing. So far, Facebook is far superior, but mostly because that’s the one used by [...]

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I’m No Artist, But…

Okay, so I maybe putting the cart before the horse, but I believe in getting a head start when I can. I’m only about half finished with my second book (first draft!) and I’ve been considering cover art. Why? Because you only get about 8 seconds to entice a prospective reader to take the time [...]

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Am I Qualified?

It just occurred to me that some of you may wonder what qualifies me to write a Bible study, since that was my first published book.  I know I wouldn’t trust just anyone to write a Bible study worth journeying through. To be honest, I asked myself that same question many times as I wrote [...]

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To Post Or Not To Post: Putting Book Content Online

Hello, fine readers!  Just a short post to ask a question.  I’ve been reading that a few authors post first drafts of books as they write them and the first chapters of their books that have been published.  So, here’s my question: do you think posting first drafts and final first chapters is a good idea?

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Marketing For The Indie Author

We have the flu at our house, so this will be just a short post (and probably a bit scattered in its organization, so I apologize).  I hope to write more on the subject at a later date.  Perhaps by then I’ll have tried all the techniques suggested in the following links and will be [...]

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