Saturday 28 November 2020

B021 CRISIS V CONFLICT


Good storytellers differentiate between a crisis and conflict; whilst beginning authors often focus on the exciting crisis rather than the conflict that makes readers care about the characters enduring the crisis. Here's why you should try both.


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Tuesday 24 November 2020

P030 SUBMITTING TO LITERARY JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES


You’ve written your book and need to promote it. One way of doing it is to find ways of advertising through literary journals and magazines. It's a good way to link your book to local interest subjects. Here's how.


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Saturday 21 November 2020

B020 HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR HORROR BOOK


This blog podcast looks at the way movie makers use trailers to advertise their movie and how you can utilise and adapt their techniques to promote your horror book.


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Tuesday 17 November 2020

P29 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT2


In the 2nd part of this podcast about writing a children's book we continue with working with an illustrator, how to revise, how to edit and cut out the dross and finally how to publish.


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Sunday 15 November 2020

P28 WRITING A CHILDRENS BOOK PT1


This two-part podcast concentrates on some easy steps to writing a children's book. We start with generating a concept that works, creating a character children will love, knowing the length to write and structuring a good plot.


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