Posted on April 28, 2023 at 11:01 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of craft, marketing, and business advice to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Insights from 20Books Seville and the London Book Fair: Orna Ross and Joanna Penn share what they learned from some major literary events in the Advanced Self-Publishing Podcast (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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Things you must know how to do as an author: Here's another podcast, this one from Penny Sansevieri on the tasks that writers — no matter the genre or publication method — can't afford to be ignorant of (Author Marketing Experts).
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Abandon your protagonist at the side of the road: Author Natalie Hart has borrowed a technique that her brother, a counselor, uses in his therapy sessions in her fiction — that is, considering what a protagonist was like before traumas in order to understand their motivations and how to make them grow (Writer Unboxed).
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Top 5 tips for writing a near-dystopian future: Storytelling trends are moving backwards, it seems, with the lead-up to dystopia now being the hot thing; novelist and playwright Chana Porter shares her advice on this particular theme (Writer's Digest).
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