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How Group Therapy Saved My Life
Christie Tate
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, Group is the refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—her...
over 5 years ago
Nonfiction
Reason for Writing
How a Story’s Setting Can Become a Character in the Story
Chrome Oxide
The best settings become major characters in your stories, affecting your main characters' decisions and experiences. Science fiction and fantasy author Chrome Oxide says there are stories where planets come alive, making the setting an integral part...
over 4 years ago
Fiction
Setting
Penguin Books' Eddy Teo on the Evolution of the Singaporean Book Market
Eddy Teo
Penguin Books Singapore's Managing Director Eddy Teo has spent his entire adult life working in the book publishing business in Singapore. With his first job in the early 1980's, the process of selling books was quite different from how books are sold...
over 8 years ago
Distribution & Sales
International
Building Your Brand: A Consistent Image - video
Kyle Lacy
Providing a consistent image is one of the most important things you can do to build your author brand. Branding expert Kyle Lacy shares tips on how to build your author brand online by focusing on consistency. Always control themes when you're trying...
over 9 years ago
Marketing Plan
Research
Keeping Current on Industry Trends to Develop Your Craft as a Writer
Ron Brumbarger
Staying on top of trends is an important component of being successful as an author. In his book You're Always Being Interviewed , Apprentice University, Inc. founder Ron Brumbarger discusses the idea of learning dispositions and how different individuals...
over 8 years ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Education and Craft
Building Your Brand: A Consistent Image - podcast
Kyle Lacy
Providing a consistent image is one of the most important things you can do to build your author brand. Branding expert Kyle Lacy shares tips on how to build your author brand online by focusing on consistency. Always control themes when you're trying...
over 9 years ago
Marketing Plan
Research
How the “Marketing Hustle” is Integral to Success as a Writer - video
Lauretta Hannon
If you are serious about wanting to find success as a writer you must embrace what author, teacher and marketing consultant Lauretta Hannon calls the "marketing hustle." Throughout her career in communications she has always aggressively pursued opportunities...
over 8 years ago
Marketing Plan
Research
How the “Marketing Hustle” is Integral to Success as a Writer - podcast
Lauretta Hannon
If you are serious about wanting to find success as a writer you must embrace what author, teacher and marketing consultant Lauretta Hannon calls the "marketing hustle." Throughout her career in communications she has always aggressively pursued opportunities...
over 8 years ago
Marketing Plan
Research
How Networking Can Be a Powerful Tool for Authors
David Hancock
Bestselling author and Morgan James Publishing founder David Hancock encourages authors to increase their networks by meeting people outside of their current circles. They can then utilize who these new contacts know, leverage their platforms, and hopefully...
over 1 year ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Networking
How Jennifer Weiner's Pandemic Hobby Inspired Her New Novel
Jennifer Weiner
Jennifer Weiner discusses how her reignited passion for biking became the inspiration behind her new book The Breakaway . Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Summer Place, That Summer, Big Summer...
over 2 years ago
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