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» 10 Ways to Promote Your Book with Facebook. When you’re promoting a book on any budget, Facebook can be a great utility.

» 10 Ways to Promote Your Book with Facebook

If you want great sales it is best to start early, six to nine months before your book is set to be published. When you are are ready, here are the tips to follow to help get the word out on Facebook: » The Top 5 Publishers for New Authors. If you want to publish your creative writing, this article is for you.

» The Top 5 Publishers for New Authors

Especially if you dream of publishing a book. Today I am going to focus on a handful of top-notch publishing companies that don’t require you to submit via an agent. These companies vary widely in what they publish, how fast the respond to submissions and how they accept those submissions. The goal here is to give you the information necessary for you to take the next step in getting your book published by a publishing house. Author Platform: Here’s What All the Fuss Is About. Author Advice, Self Publishing and Book PR & Publicity. LitFactor. How To Write A Synopsis For A Novel. Writers HATE the job of writing a book synopsis.

How To Write A Synopsis For A Novel

As anxiety escalates, so many questions may rush through their minds: “What is a literary agent looking for in my synopsis or summary? How many details should I include about my novel? Should I explain my setting and characters in my book synopsis or just stick to the basic plot?” The Writing Café. Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel - Norfolk Books. An aspiring author recently asked me to help him figure out what to say to his friends before he gave them his novel to read.

Ten questions to ask a friend who just read your novel - Norfolk Books

He wants them to read critically, give him honest feedback, but he's afraid they'll just phone it in because they like him. When you hand your friend a novel you've written, he or she knows you've slaved over it for months, maybe years, and how much it means to you, and how devastating it would be if he told you "Oops, it's terrible. " He doesn't want to be critical, or hurt your feelings, which is why the most common response from a friend who critiques you is something along the lines of "It's good! "

Publish a book? If you've never truly considered writing a book, take another look at the rubbish filling bookshelves at airport kiosks.

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The "authors" of that stuff are laughing all the way to the bank. While English majors and real literary types are screaming at each other in the stuffy halls of academia or the pages of The New Yorker, these clowns are quietly rehashing tired plots and making millions for it. » 10 Ways to Promote Your Book with Facebook. » Three Tips for Submitting Your Work. If you have never sent your creative writing out to a literary journal before the experience can be intimidating.

» Three Tips for Submitting Your Work

Many productive writers try to avoid submitting. But there is no real way around it if you want to get your work out into the world. The Reviews on this website can really help you know which journals are accepting now, and how they might interact with your work.