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    12 Top Tips from the Founder of an Indie Press: on Writing, Publishing, and Marketing for the Self-Published Author
    12 Top Tips from the Founder of an Indie Press: on Writing, Publishing, and Marketing for the Self-Published Author
    12 Top Tips from the Founder of an Indie Press: on Writing, Publishing, and Marketing for the Self-Published Author
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    12 Top Tips from the Founder of an Indie Press: on Writing, Publishing, and Marketing for the Self-Published Author

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    Table of Contents

    Write What You Want

    Write, Right For You

    Got a Minute? You've Got Time To Write

    The Value Of One Hour

    How To Self-Edit By Ignoring Your Manuscript

    The Power Of Positive Marketing

    A Tale Of Two Book Signings: 5 Tips To Better Book Signings And Book Signing Sales

    How To Sell More Books At Conventions And Conferences

    The 5 Minute Makeover To Sell More Books At Your Next Book Signing

    The Economics Of Writing

    Making Reading Interactive

    How Dinner Turned Into A Bestseller

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInvoke Books
    Release dateNov 12, 2018
    ISBN9780463075746
    12 Top Tips from the Founder of an Indie Press: on Writing, Publishing, and Marketing for the Self-Published Author
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      12 Top Tips from the Founder of an Indie Press - Invoke Books

      12 Top Tips from the founder of an Indie Press —

      on

      Writing, Publishing,

      and

      Marketing

      for the

      Self-Published Author

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      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities between real life events and people, and the events within this product are purely coincidental.

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      Table of Contents

      Write What You Want

      Write, Right For You

      Got a Minute? You've Got Time To Write

      The Value Of One Hour

      How To Self-Edit By Ignoring Your Manuscript

      The Power Of Positive Marketing

      A Tale Of Two Book Signings: 5 Tips To Better Book Signings And Book Signing Sales

      How To Sell More Books At Conventions And Conferences

      The 5 Minute Makeover To Sell More Books At Your Next Book Signing

      The Economics Of Writing

      Making Reading Interactive

      How Dinner Turned Into A Bestseller

      Write What You Want

      There is a lot to be said about writing for your market and listening to the advice of experts. This will not be my addition to that comprehensive set of established advice from those who have and have not succeeded within the industry.

      I am going to start off by saying that you should write from your heart, reach deep down and smear your soul over every page. Make every character embody every bit of what makes you flawed and human. Put them into scenarios that elicit the types of emotions you want to feel.

      Why?

      Why would I tell you to ignore all the advice about what is, and is not readable... or marketable? Simple. You are one in more than seven billion people and there are more people out there just like you. Now, here is the hard part. Once you have written your truly unique piece that comes from the deepest parts of your soul, you have to find your

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