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Marketing Plan…these are words guaranteed to make most authors run for the hills. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Promoting your books can be an excuse to fall in love with your characters all over again, or ogle abs, or show off your arts and crafts skills. Romance Writer’s Chat (#RWChat) recently hosted me on their blog to talk about just this topic. I wanted to link it here on my website so that all my author tips resources are in one place. And also because RWChat itself is a fantastic resource for all romance (or non-romance!) authors. They do a weekly Twitter chat on Sunday that’s a great place to meet other authors, share writing craft and publishing knowledge, and, of course, deploy all your favorite Daenerys dragon fire gifs. After you read my post, feel free... Read More

Have you ever been at a party with that person who just won’t stop talking? Well, it’s the same thing with your writing. Fiction is built, more or less, out of four basic parts: dialogue, thoughts, actions, and descriptions. All the best fiction has a good balance of these four parts, and when you get too much or too little, bad things start to happen. If all your characters do is talk, your readers will stop listening. If all your characters do is move, your readers will wish for a little emotional depth. If all they do is describe things, your readers will be like, “Oh my God, his eyes were BLUE we get it already!” This is an issue I’ve worked with a ton in my editing business, and so I eventually came up with a quicker way for... Read More