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Giving It Away: Why Fiction Authors Should Offer Free Ebooks by Jason Kong explores the reasoning that suggests new authors spread their work as widely as possible
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The scope of Why the Lion Grew its Mane: A Miscellany of Recent Scientific Discoveries from Astronomy to Zoology, as stated by the author, is to offer a «fascinating collection of recent discoveries that overturn popular conceptions, enter realms that were previously the preserve of science fiction, or simply add to the sum of human knowledge».
Author Nalo Hopkinson opens up about writing Brown Girl in the Ring, the power of science fiction and why the Black Panther movie is going to change everything.
Readers may also be interested in this post by Sangeeta Mehta entitled Is Self - Publishing a Viable Option for Literary Fiction Writers as well as my earlier post, Tearing Down the Wall: Why The Literary Community Should Embrace Indie Authors.
This is another mark in their favor, because why would a romance author pay the same amount for a list that only likes science fiction?
They don't look and they don't care (which is why, as I glance at the top selling books on Amazon in science fiction right now, self - published authors dominate.
One of the big reasons why Christian fiction right now is on the decline is authors are no longer getting good incentives from traditional publishing companies.
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Listening as readers shared answers to authors» questions in the reverse panel — from humorous confessions of starting with the last page first to heartfelt tributes about why they read Christian fiction.
Heather Hart, our guest in this episode, shares some really basic tips on what authors should be doing to market their books, whether you are a fiction author or a nonfiction author, and why that doesn't even really matter because marketing is marketing.
Jim and Bryan also chatted about the Dear Author lawsuit, the Guardian reviewer stalking piece, five marketing mistakes most beginning fiction writers make, why Amazon is doing the world a favor, and several new features for the iBooks platform.
And that is why for me, my cofounders, an increasing number of authors, and our early superfans, 2016 will be a year of spiraling deeper into the Fiction Vortex.
Patchen Barrs, author of The Erotic Engine provided further insight on why erotica and Christian fiction are doing so well in today's digital climate.
Why do people love dystopian fiction and are enamored with authors such as Hugh Howey?
Why are the erotica authors the targets here, and not crime thrillers or horror fiction writers, for example?
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You can read an extended Q&A on BookPage.com, in which the author tells us how she stayed passionate about a project for 18 years; why she chose to write about race relations in the South of the 1950s; and how she feels about using the «N» word in historical fiction.
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Why EVERY author (non-fiction AND fiction) is losing big time if they are not also selling info - products related to the subject of their book
Topics included: my personal history and motives as a writer; the elements of fiction that I find easiest, and hardest; where I get my fiction ideas; the role that feedback from others has in my writing process; which writers have most influenced me; why I chose to self - publish; what it means to be a «vigilante author»; how to promote indie books; and my advice for other writers.
I wonder why no one ever mentions the Beat authors of the 1950's when discussing creative non fiction.
To elaborate further why this year will be such a great opportunity for boxed sets, David Gaughran has recently teamed up with several authors who write in the similar genre as his, historical fiction, and discussed the process of working from start to finish.
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A frequent #FutureChat participant, the self - publishing historical fiction author Jane Steen, tweeted that she was inspired by Friday's chat to write Why Indie Authors Should Support the Call for Fairer Publishing Contracts.
As well, my concern as a professionally published author is that aggressive marketing (TV commercials, Youtube trailers, fancy websites etc.) are creating a successful viral marketing paradigm for self - pubbed fiction that has the potential to impact trad publishing & leave writers wondering «why bother with the arduous and often heartbreaking process of queries, rejection slips, the endless waiting, etc. when the neighbor simply threw up a website, hired a gang of marketing professionals and bingo, Neil Gaiman is reviewing their book before it's even published?!»
That's why self - pub e-books had considerable early success for some authors in genre fiction — the core readers took flyers on the self - pubs.
Mario Acevedo, the new Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer anthology editor will present a talk about the anthology, its history, this year's theme, and why contributing to the anthology will add to an author's experience as a writer.
Fiction authors can focus more on why they write in a specific genre in this section.
Author and editor Yi Shun Lai discusses writing for the J. Peterman catalog, common problems she sees in short fiction and short nonfiction, why she decided to start writing about being Asian, and more in this 5 On interview.
Author Blogs — Getting Started The Blogging Mindset Why Blogging is Like Book Publishing Should Fiction Authors Be Bloggers?
In lieu of a traditional postmortem, the author has written an extensive blog post about what led him to create this piece of interactive fiction and why he thinks the topic is so important.