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Crafting Effective Characters Part Three
The Comic Companion plays a pivotal role in many, many successful tales. Scout in the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird , Bilbo at the...
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Crafting Effective Characters Part Two
Master authors through the centuries have already devised guidelines for thousands of successful characters, firmly grounded in a range...
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Crafting Effective Characters Part 1
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of...
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A Word About Fan Fiction (and Fiction Itself)
I recently watched Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and it prompted me to consider a few things about the way fiction works, including...
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Crack Your Marketing: A Guide to Actually Selling Your Book
IT'S FINALLY HERE! The e-book that could change your entire writing career! Published a book? Getting no sales? Disappointed as sales of...
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Crack Your Marketing: a Chart
By way of summarising, here’s a chart of what the flow of traffic would look like if you set things up based around the Marketing Mantra:...
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Crack Your Marketing: A Word About Positioning
Though writers work alone (usually), their work exists in a community of other work as soon as it is published. Human beings think in...
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Crack Your Marketing: Fire Up The Beacon
To answer a couple of questions that have come up: ‘Does my writing have to be different to everyone else’s in a particular genre in...
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Copy of Crack Your Marketing: Find Your Writing Personality
OK, so as we have seen the first approach you can take if you want to have fun marketing is to concentrate on the type of writing you...