You have a desire to become a writer but with a difference. You are wanting to offer your writing services to other writers, businesses, news-sheets, blogs etc. But what do you charge for these types of services. Today we discuss how you do it and what the prices should be.
Talking about interesting stuff relating to writers and the world of writing in general.
Monday, 27 March 2023
Monday, 20 March 2023
B077 AMAZON AND KIDS EBOOKS
Today we discuss why there is a benefit for authors to ensure they offer a digital version of their books. And this includes children's picture books. We explain the 'Look inside' part of Amazon and briefly why you should have a copyright in all your books even the kids ones.
Monday, 13 March 2023
P100 WORD COUNTS FOR CHILDRENS BOOKS
With more and more children's books being written and published are you up to date on the word count? If not, hopefully this podcast will help you decide how many words are, or are not, enough for your next book.
Monday, 6 March 2023
B076 CREATING ARTWORK FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS
One of the joys of writing picture books is deciding on the images that must compliment the story. After all, pictures tell 50% of the story and therefore they need to be great. In this podcast I talk about finding and working with an artist/illustrator and some finer points you need to know.
Monday, 27 February 2023
P099 BEING ATTACKED UNNECESSARILY
What do you do when you think you have been verbally attacked unnecessarily? As a mentor this recently happened to me and it was not nice. So this is how I resolved the problem and how I turned it into a positive for other authors.
Monday, 20 February 2023
B075 VARY YOUR SENTENCE STRUCTURE
When writing it is often too easy to fall into the trap of writing the same old same sentences. Today we talk about you can vary your sentences with the easiest of adjustments, whether it be adding words, removing them or simply just placing them in a differing order.
Monday, 13 February 2023
P098 TIPS FOR ASPIRING WRITERS PT 3
Becoming a writer can be easy or hard depending on your mindset. In the final part of this 3-part podcast we conclude with our learning from established writer/authors from across the generations. Having been kind enough to share their perspective on how writing should be approached in order to achieve success, we conclude this series and hope you have learnt much to help you in your writing.