In storytelling, creating strong and multi-dimensional characters is essential to captivating readers and immersing them in the narrative. Developing compelling protagonists that resonate with the audience can make or break a story. Readers will remember characters before they remember plots. The characters are how the reader relates to the story. Creating complex, well-rounded characters will have your readers coming back for more.
In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part three we discuss using your web presence to help grow your platform.
In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part one, we define marketing and how it applies to authors and book sales. In part two, we delve into some social media platforms and how to utilize them to help grow your platform:
In this several-part series, we’re going to look at what it means to build a platform, and then once that platform is built, how to use it to market your books. In part one, we define marketing and how it applies to authors and book sales:
I am an indie author, so my deadlines and productions schedules are set years in advance, but they’re set by me. Which means that if I go through a period of conferences and more conferences and conventions followed by Type A flu, pneumonia, strep, and sinus infections that spread through my family, thus knocking me out of any definable work from mid-September to mid-November (what an autumn we had that year!), then the world is not going to collapse around me. However, that also means that I need to get out my dry erase markers and my year-at-a-glance laminated calendars and start shifting things around.
As Christian writers, our goal is to impact the world for Christ through our written words. That’s something Capital Christian Writers Fellowship has been passionate ….
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“Into” and “in to” are two distinct words and phrases, but they’re often used almost interchangeably, even though they shouldn’t be. “Into” is a single ….