This Week on Books Direct - 18 August 2013
Here's
a list of the articles you may have missed this week:
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"46
Top Websites to Promote Your Book for FREE" - Article by Savvy Writers
& Ebooks Online.
Since
being first published in March 2012, this list of websites has grown to almost
100. Don't forget, you can also promote your books right here on the Books
Direct blog. Check out the "List
Your Book" page for further information.
"Top
Free & Paid Services to Promote Your Kindle Books" - Article by
Eric of FreeeBooksDaily.net for 30 Day Books.
Promoting
your book before and after you publish it is a critical step to making your
book a success. Eric shares his favorite places to promote books, both free and
paid.
"Amazon
Kindle e-Book Return Policy: Stop allowing refunds on e-Books after e-Books
have been read." - Petition on Change.org.
Please
sign the petition to have your say. Books you purchase from the Kindle Store
are eligible for return and refund if they receive your request within seven
days of the date of purchase. This is unfair to authors and publishers because
this is how many of them earn their living.
"List
Building Basics for Authors" - Article by Sharon for Fiction
Blueprints.
The
real issue is not about getting readers to your blog. The question should be
how do you keep them coming back to read your posts?
"Reading
Books to Your kids Can Help Them Deal with Social Struggles" - Article
by DNA India.
A
new study looks at parents using books as interventions for children who
experience social struggles, which may arise from disabilities like autism or
Down Syndrome. The new research explores the positive effects of reading as
part of a parental intervention strategy for children struggling with social
issues.
"So You Want
To Write?" - Article by Julie Elizabeth Powell.
A
list of what Elizabeth has has found useful, from someone who's writing in between paid
work.
Inspired
by Elmore Leonard's 10
Rules of Writing, The Guardian asked authors for their personal dos and
don'ts.
You
can also read Part 2 here.
"25
Steps To Being A Traditionally Published Author: Lazy Bastard Edition"
- Article by Delilah S. Dawson on TerribleMinds.
Read
Delilah's "quickest, dirtiest, most simple route to writing a novel and
getting it published by a traditional publisher."
"How
to 'Make' a Bestseller" - Article by Carmen DeSousa.
What's
the secret to having a bestseller?
"The
Last Words of Literary Greats" - Article by Indie Books Reviewed.
What
would you like your last words to be?
"How
Posterity Might See Us" - Article by Rosanne Dingli.
How
will you be seen years down the track? Would you rewrite your own history?
"When
History Gets in the Way of a Good Story" - Article by Michael Reynolds
for English Historical Fiction Authors.
A
fiction writer's primary role is as a storyteller. So it becomes critical to
develop some tricks of the trade in order to keep one's novels page-turning and
on plot.
Editing
is probably one of those things you hate to do but feel as if you have to do
anyway to put out the best book possible. And you'd be right. But there is also
that other side of editing, the side called choice, when it's really is up to
you to decide how you want your story to go.
