by admin | Oct 10, 2022 | Writing
The debate of whether to use a first-person or third-person viewpoint in fiction has been around for years. Each point of view has its own advantages and disadvantages. First-person fiction is told from the point of view of the protagonist, using first-person pronouns...
by admin | Oct 5, 2022 | Marketing, Publishing
Book titles are very important in the overall marketing of your book and your brand. I want to give you some tips for choosing the right title for your nonfiction book. In choosing a title for your nonfiction book, it’s important to make sure that the title...
by admin | Sep 29, 2022 | Writing
Have you heard of this interesting phenomenon? It’s called the doorway effect*. You’ve probably experienced it. It’s when you go into a different room and forget why you went in. Parts of your brain are always alert to danger so the first thing your working memory...
by admin | Jun 27, 2022 | Writing
Dialogs A client of mine has written a novel. While editing, I wonder how many novels he has read. (Also read on if you’re writing non-fiction. This is also relevant for you.) Often, his dialogs go like this: John said, “What’s the matter, Mary? Are you ill?” Mary...
by admin | Jun 27, 2022 | Marketing
Tips to Market Your Self-published Book In an ideal world, we’d all have a million dollars to market our books and ourselves lavishly, but that’s almost never the case in the indie publishing world. Many self-published authors struggle with how to market their books....
