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A Playlist for ‘Not Famous’
Earlier this month I was made aware of a Spotify playlist that had been created by a reader of Not Famous. I checked it out and was very impressed by it. I asked @lit_tracks0 about the process of creating the playlist. “While I’m reading a book I’ll start to get inklings of music I’m associating…
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My Rules For Writing A Novel
Okay, let me be the first to say that I’m probably not the correct person to ask for advice on novel-writing. But, as someone on the verge of publishing his second novel, I’ve been asked for advice by emerging indie authors and figured I should really sit and think about what works for me, and…
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Responding to Nick Spalding’s Self-Publishing Tips
Yesterday I posted excerpts from Nick Spalding’s thirteen-year old tips on self-publishing, which he told me are all still applicable today. So, today I’m going to respond to his tips with my thoughts. 1. Don’t give up the day job Of course the dream is to sell lots of books, make tons of money, and…
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Self-Publishing Tips From Nick Spalding
Nick Spalding is a very successful author with indie roots, who went on to sign a six-figure book deal. Back in 2003, he gave us his top 10 self-publishing tips. I’ve posted them below with excerpts: 1. Don’t give up the day job “Everyone wants to live the dream and write full time, but it…
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Is The Key To Selling Lad-Lit Marketing To Women?
Wow, I had no idea that the publishing world was writing off “lad lit” fourteen years ago… but it’s true. In 2004, Publisher’s Weekly published an article titled “Lad Lit Hits the Skids”, and it was kind of frightening to read. What if publishers created a subgenre and nobody read it? In the case of “lad…
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Who Will Buy My Book?
I just came across this article from The Millions by author Tom McAllister, and was immediately drawn to this paragraph: Before I ever published anything, I’d assumed that if I ever finished a book, there would be so much demand from family and friends alone that we’d have to go into a second printing before the release date. But I am…
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Why I’m Going Right To Self-Publishing
I’m in a few author groups on Facebook, and recently someone was talking about their novel in progress, and was asked if they were going to self-publish or attempt to get an agent and a publisher. I honestly can’t remember what the answer was because I immediately began to consider the implication of the question. …
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On Writing (Strong) Female Characters
Men know jack about women. Women don’t really get me either. But, men and women authors have to write characters of the opposite sex. They do it all the time. Some even write novels/stories with women narrators. Hey, if they can pull it off all the power to them. Nick Hornby did so quite effectively in…
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Writing for Men… and Women.
Today I got curious about the prevalance of the term “lad-lit” and decided to do a Google News search on the term and see what came up. Not much. Articles were sparse… but… I did find a three-year-old Newsweek article that caught my eye about… you guessed it, Nick Hornby. Titled, “King of Lad Lit…
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We Need More American Lad-Lit
According to Wikipedia, “Nick Hornby is considered to be the originator of” the lad-lit genre. As a result, much of what is often considered lad-lit is written by other British authors. The term itself is British. When I consider the lad-lit that I’ve read, this holds true. Nick Hornby, Jonathan Tropper, Nick Spalding, Matthew Norman,…
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