Self Publishing

Sadly, rich characterization is not the key to selling commercial fiction — Don’t tell me how not to write Indiana Jones. I dislike calling people out, especially if they’re well-intentioned, but I about fell out of my chair the other day when I read an article by a person who wants to teach us how to write characters who aren’t stock types…

Are you a self-publishing author? Looking for locations to get your book out to the readers of the world? Everyone who’s anyone knows about one’s ability to self-publish on Amazon.com through something called Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), but did you know that there are other platforms to get your book…

The pages before the story have a set order — sometimes. — Open a novel. Go ahead, do it. Right now. Unless you have a very unusual book, the story won’t start on the first page. …

The biggest publication is the self-publish publication. — I got my first curated story by self-publishing. When I started writing on Medium, I had no idea what publications were, so I self-published many times. A look at the statistics of my first-ever post. This guy right here ↓ Views: 918 Reads: 390 Read ratio: 42%

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