Marketing: Book Trailers

Just like a movie trailer, a book trailer gives a sneak peek into the world of your book, enticing viewers with glimpses of the characters, plot, and mood of your story. It’s a powerful marketing tool that can pique the curiosity of readers and leave them eager to dive into your book.

World Building

As a writer delving into the realms of fantasy and science fiction, world-building is an essential skill to master. Crafting immersive worlds that captivate readers requires attention to detail, consistency, and creativity. Here are some techniques and exercises to help you develop your settings:

The Importance of Strong Characters

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.

An Indie Author’s Guide to Planning Book Production

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.