Promo Tip: Check your links

Once your book is released, double check the links on your website. Any link to your publisher, to buy the book, etc. should now link to your book’s personal page on your publisher’s website or to amazon/barnesandnoble or where ever readers can buy your book.
Alice Anderson

Ready, Set, Go…als

The New Year is almost here and you, dear friend, know what that means.
It’s time to set some goals.
I knew a writer once, we’ll call her Sarah, who would create elaborate goals. She was super organized and super enthusiastic. Everything was a goal. Her school-teacher-like handwriting filled journals with everything from “get my hair cut” [...]

Quick Tip: Time to write

Don’t wait for “the right time to write.” Make every chance you get the right time. Carry a satchel or briefcase with you everywhere you go. Inside, keep a notebook, a pen, pencil, and/or a laptop/word processor. Now you’re ready to write whenever you have a spare moment.
Alice Anderson

Promo Tip: Get in touch

Today’s promo tip is to contact someone you haven’t talked to in a while. An old friend, a fellow author, a reader, or a host at a romance community. FMI:

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Writing Wide by Billie A Williams

Thanks to Billie A Williams for the guest post. Follow Billie on Twitter.
Learning all the rules so you can break them to write your own truth and expand your knowledge, imagination, and interpretation of the life around you.
Wide lines on wide ruled paper are what you used when you first began to write so that [...]

3 Synopsis Samples

If you’re anything like me, you learn through example. So here are links to three synopsis samples/examples. Read them and take notes on how they incorporate the storyline, characters, and other important details. Pay close attention to how they transition from scene to scene and wrap up the ending of the story as well.

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Promo Tip: Get on Goodreads

Forget myspace. Forget bebo. Forget Facebook. Get on Goodreads and start keeping track of your virtual library. Rate books, review them, give recommendations, comment on people’s profiles. Make connections. Give back to the community. And make sure YOUR books are listed in the Goodreads database so that others can add them to their virtual library.
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A Hard look at 2009

With only a few days left of 2009 it’s time to take a look, a hard look, at what went well, what went wrong, which goals you achieved, which goals fell short in 2009, and what you need to improve on in 2010.
Let’s start with a question.
What went right in 2009?

In what ways did you [...]

Workshop: Personality Plus – Making Your Characters Real

PERSONALITY PLUS: MAKING YOUR CHARACTERS REAL
Instructors: Sue Viders and Becky Martinez
Dates: Jan 10th 2010 – Feb 6th 2010
Registration Opens: December 27th, 2009
Registration Deadline: January 9th, 2010
Fee: $15 Non-Chapter members. RWAOL Chapter #136 members; free.
Payment method: PAYPAL is recommended! It’s safe and fast! Check and money orders also accepted.
FMI & Registration: www.rwaonlinechapter.org/campus.htm
Email: workshops AT [...]

Promo Tip: Update your signature

Today’s promo tip is to update your signature. I’ve seen lots of outdated and huge signature’s lately. This is annoying for readers. They want to know what’s new and they want to know quickly. FMI:

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