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Written for anyone who wants to learn how to write stellar product reviews that get noticed, How To Write Helpful Reviews: Advice From a Top Amazon Reviewer is a beginner's how-to guide for writing Amazon customer reviews that get helpful votes and increase the reviewer's Top Amazon Reviewer ranking. In addition to explaining the essential components of writing a memorable product review, this book provides helpful examples, writing tips for crafting...
1962) Secret Powers of the Author Mastermind: How to Transform From Struggling Writer to Career Author
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Struggle. Doubt. Fear. Why aren't your books selling? How can you improve your craft? You're confused, feeling isolated, and not sure what you need to do to take your author career to the next level. You're not afraid of the work, just confused about what it is you need to be doing to live the author’s life. Enter, the mastermind. No matter how experienced, independent, and motivated of a writer you may be, forming or joining an author mastermind...
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Write a Chapbook Mini-Course is your quick guide on how to write chapbooks. Why would you want to write a chapbook? Well, chapbooks are fun! Especially these days when people are busy and always on the go, a little chapbook can do wonders. Contrary to what many people think, chapbooks are not limited to poetry. Writing a chapbook can be used for short stories, other works of fiction, as well as non-fiction writing!
This chapbook is divided into 3...
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When you sit down to write, does your story sometimes get stuck?
Do you wish there was another way?
Sometimes, despite all our dreaming, outlining, and drive to write, the story grinds to a halt. Thankfully, there is another way to beat the critic and get back to writing progress in no time. Humans are meaning-making magicians. By working with the tarot as the key to your unconscious, this guide will help you to break through to the deeper levels...
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Writing for Young People offers insight and advice to aspiring writers and educators on how to set up a writing business and the process of crafting projects centred around young readers.
Delving into important aspects such as workspace organisation, time and money management, and overcoming procrastination, Writing for Young People equips writers and educators with the tools to shape the literary landscape for young people.
This book draws from...
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There is no magic formula to good writing……There is no quick, easy way to write a bestselling novel or short story.Sure, you can hammer out a fifty-thousand-word novel in a month or less if you know what you're doing, but how do you get there from here? Easy, you write every day, right? Well, that's one way to do it, but just like any endeavor, one needs to also develop a few skills to be good at writing.There are a few indispensable tidbits of...
1968) The Indie Author Atlas
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YOUR PASSPORT TO THE FIVE CONTINENTS OF THE WRITING WORLD
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information you have to learn as a writer?
The Indie Author Atlas eliminates overwhelm and makes the art of learning to be a writer fun. It turns the major concepts writers need to learn into can't-miss vacation destinations.
Ready to get away?
Pamper yourself at the pristine beachfronts at the Strategy Islands
Get lost in the expansive...
1969) My Dream With Grandpa
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Book Synopsis: Written from a four-year-old child's point of view and experience. The book addresses the question: "What is a funeral?" "Why is everyone so sad?" and "Will we ever see our loved one again?" The answer to "Will we ever see Grandpa again?" is a dream.
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This book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing students and their tutors. Arranged into weeks, the book contains enough material for a 2 x 10 week programme, plus additional workshop material to help students think differently about creative careers and being a writer in the world. If you are not on a course, the tools in this book will help you to establish a writing habit, especially if you need help getting over fear of the...
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Founded in 2016, Review Tales informs, inspires, and provides knowledge of the craft of writing and supports indie authors by providing a platform to demonstrate their well-deserved work. The quarterly magazine is dedicated to readers, writers, self-publishers and includes literature discussions. It is an essential collection of author confessions, started interviews, words of wisdom, book reviews, and literary works.
Contributors for issue 02:
Roxanne...
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Are you struggling to get your book from your head to the paper and off to the market?Thanks to self-publishing made easy, you no longer have to wait for a publisher to select your book and give you a publishing deal, publish, market, then distribute it. In this book, you will learn:• How to get down and create the story you want to write/publish on.• How to polish and edit your book to make it market-ready.• How to work on your book's...
1973) L. Frank Baum
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This biography introduces reader to L. Frank Baum, the best-selling author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Readers will learn about Baum's childhood in New York, his work as a writer, actor, and traveling salesman, and the inspiration for his famous book that continues to be popular today. Baum wrote 13 books in his Oz series. Easy-to-read text and full-color photos highlight Baum's childhood, family, education, and life as an author. Checkerboard...
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A JOKE BOOK THAT TEACHES YOU HOW TO BE FUNNY!
Follow a cast of fictional funny experts into the Laugh Lab, a hilarious joke-building factory that teaches middle-grade readers how to create their own jokes, puns, silly one-liners, and more. Each chapter explores a different style of joke making, such as surprise, understatement, and exaggeration, and includes hundreds of hilarious examples. By the end of the book, readers will have a set of tools...
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Techniques pour écrire dans un genre précis
D'abord choisir son genre parmi une douzaine possibles. Chacun a son cahier des charges et son lectorat : roman historique à une époque lointaine ou contemporaine, roman régionaliste, roman policier historique ou régionaliste…
Ensuite, des techniques à maîtriser : Se documenter. Créer et caractériser ses personnages. Charpenter le récit. Choisir ses décors. Maîtriser ses points de vue. Ecrire...
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This book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players in the field. At times controversial, the book presents issues, ideas and pedagogic practices related to creative writing in and around education, with a focus on higher education. The volume aims to give the reader a sense of contemporary thinking and to provide some alternative points of view, offering...
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A complete author's toolkit: The guide that demystifies every step of the publishing process.
No matter what type of book you want to write-fiction, nonfiction, humor, sci-fi, romance, cookbook, children's book-here is how to take an idea you're passionate about, develop it into a manuscript or proposal, get it published, and deliver it into the hands and hearts of readers. Includes interviews with dozens of publishing insiders-agents, editors,...
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LEARN WHAT IT TAKES TO FUNDRAISE EFFECTIVELY
A Guide for Board Members and Staff of Nonprofits New to Fundraising
It would be great to receive contributions from more people, and it would be really nice to get a few big checks from foundations-if only you could figure out how to fundraise.
Does that sound familiar? If so, read The Quick Wise Guide to Fundraising Readiness before you make any false starts or hire a fundraiser to help you.
With this...
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Are you an author confused by the self-publishing landscape? If so, this is for you! It's the perfect guide fortraditionally published authors wondering whether to self-publishMA and MFA creative writing students who need a clear intro to the new publishingpublished authors keen to exploit their back catalogindie author beginners whoneed a clear overviewwriters and journalists who want to cut to the chase and start earningIn short, anyone who wants...
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Discover the secret to toasting with confidence and write the perfect speech with this complete, no-nonsense guide to toasting!
With a short, snappy, and straightforward speechwriting system, this practical handbook is your all-in-one guide for nailing the perfect toast, arming you with a comprehensive overview of the full speechwriting process. Built on a simple 7-day brainstorming system, you'll uncover how you can brainstorm clever speech...
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