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Posted on April 7, 2023 at 9:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft and business advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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How to market a book by following the "rules" for success: It might be more buzz-worthy to encourage rule-breaking, but Penny Sansevieri and Amy Cornell believe that following certain marketing and publishing rules — which they discuss in a recent podcast episode — will serve your book marketing strategy better (Author Marketing Experts)
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How to find comp titles by using ChatGPT: Author John Matthew Fox explains how writers can use artificial intelligence to pick out comparable titles, for their marketing efforts (Jane Friedman).
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Where connection comes from: If you've ever received feedback along the lines of, "I didn't connect with your characters," then you'll want to study literary agent Donald Maass's analysis of how readers forge these bonds with fictional people (Writer Unboxed).
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How one writer got her small-town groove back: Author Lexi Blake used to write romances set all around the world, but now she's shifted to much more everyday backdrops; she shares her thoughts on the change and on world-building (Writer's Digest).
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Crowdfunding for authors: This may be an episode of the Advanced Self-Publishing Podcast, but Orna Ross and Joanna Penn encourage writers not to panic — it's more of a discussion of crowdfunding, "with a little bit of advanced" (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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