Writer Wednesday


And the yearly wordcount is over 300K, but I’ll need to slow down in August to revise a couple of things. I should be able to catch up in September, though! 🙂

I found another publisher open to novella submissions, and I’m sharing it here in case you have a festive-themed novella. I might send them something for the advance notice novella series. And I’ll soon send something to Tor as well. Oh, and since I’m on a submission-call sharing spree, see if you have anything for Quoth the Raven celebrating the works of Edgar Allan Poe! 🙂

Now, if you’re just starting, you might have to confront the 8 fears that hold writers back from publishing their books. But when it comes to cover art, please follow the Indie Author’s guide to hiring a cover artist! 🙂 I’m a hobbyist artist, I’ll try to look for a typograpy and graphics workshop in my area to get even better.

Maybe one day I’ll make covers for other people as well! 😉 Learning with my own, though, since this year I started doing composite of stock photos (either from Depositphoto or Neostock)… and I’m currently having fun in spite of a Photoshop 7.0 and very limited skills, LOL!

If you want to do it too, please read the Indie Author’s guide to stock photography! 🙂

Our man David Gaughran is still on Amazon’s back. I haven’t managed to read Amazon Decoded yet, but here’s how to (ethically) hack Amazon categories. I’m not sure I tried to apply this to my historical novel, for example. Well, I did put the keywords but they don’t come out in the search, so… I guess next step should be writing to KDP support? Meh.

And in case you missed the cocky-gate, here’s a good summary. And there’s someone else trying to trademark Dragon Slayer as well… sigh. Glad there’s CockyBot to look after that mess! 🙂

OH, SALES SALES SALES! On DriveThruFiction and DriveThruComics everything from Unicorn Productions is 25% off! 😀

Aaaand… we have a paperback for Sci-fi Stories Space Opera Mashup. So if you’re up for a dead tree book, it’s available too. For all four anthologies! 🙂

That’s all for today… have a great week!

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  1. Sean Monaghan

     /  25/07/2018

    300K is impressive. So many writers gaze into space looking for the next word. Nice to see someone else who writes so much. Thanks for the pointer to Twelfth Planet – I’ll check the guidelines and maybe give them a try.

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    • Barb

       /  25/07/2018

      I’m aiming for half pulp speed this year! 😉
      Re: 12th planet, I couldn’t find how long the contract lasts. It’s a small advance and 40% royalty for how long?

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  2. Victoria Zigler (@VictoriaZigler)

     /  25/07/2018

    Awesome about the word count! I’m hoping to see you announcing that you made it to the 5K this time around.

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  3. Anonymous

     /  25/07/2018

    Thanks so much for the wonderful shoutout!! All the best, Dean – NeoStock LTD

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    • Barb

       /  25/07/2018

      Thank you for the two very informative posts, Dean! (And of course for the great stock! 🙂 )

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