by TheWinterwolf | Nov 4, 2016 | Author's Life, Marketing Tips
In 2014, Taylor Swift made headlines when she wrote, “There are a few things I have witnessed becoming obsolete in the past few years, the first being autographs.” Apparently, the iPhone generation prefers selfies over signed photos, especially when social media sites...
by TheWinterwolf | Oct 7, 2016 | Author's Life, Marketing Tips
Here’s the thing no one tells you about getting published: it can take longer than writing the book. Blogger Elizabeth Evans even quoted the waiting game as two of the five things that you don’t know about book publishing (“don’t hold your...
by TheWinterwolf | Sep 26, 2016 | Resources, Writing Tips and Tools
There’s a great big beautiful movie coming to theaters next year; one based on a beloved fairy tale that you might have (definitely) already heard about: Walt Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast. There are, of course, plenty of other versions of the...
by TheWinterwolf | Sep 19, 2016 | Author's Life, Resources, Writing Tips and Tools
When Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid first debuted in 2004 and Lemony Snicket’s eleventh novel in A Series of Unfortunate events was published later that same year, another great book was about to hit shelves — The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell...
by TheWinterwolf | Sep 16, 2016 | Publishing Tips
Welcome back for Part 2 of Diversifying Your Platforms! As we discussed last time, diversifying your publishing platforms can help an author reach a larger audience that won’t necessarily sit down and read through more traditional formats. Today we’re going to be...