Inspiring writers to write and get published

Why not start your own book publisher?

This interview tells to stroy of Miriam Wakerly, author of Gypsies Stop tHere. She decided to skip the traditional route of proposals and rejections and set up her own publishing company. Find out how she established a distribution chain and tried to overcome the biggest hurdle – getting a book into a bookshop.

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This is Social Media by Guy Clapperton

It sets out to explore the world of social media from a layman’s point of view and the bulk of the book looks at different sites, how to set up an account and how to use them, gettinh the most out of the experience in the process. I could waffle on, but when you consider Clapperton covers fourteen different services, including smaller site as well as the big boys like twitter, you will get the point.

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6 tips to getting published in 2010

The publishing world may be changing with technology, ebooks, iphones, Kindle, DRM, and self publishing all looking to be important factors for this year. However, the bedrock for any writer remains the same, and that is that content, narrative and networking remain king.

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The problem with Twitter

Twitter is a great way to build a network. The fact that it’s free, well populated and easy to use makes it a great platform for writers, businesses and individuals. Add to this the fact that the Retweet and open follow mechanisms make it easy to quickly build a large following and you have a winning formula for building an active network.

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The Proactive Writer and Magnetic Marketing

A proactive writer is a magnetic marketer.

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Proactive Writers participate

Participation is the cornerstone of a Proactive Writer’s approach to winning new fans.

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Alan Garner is a magical man

It was a cold and gloomy winter morning in the North West of England. As I drove through the suburbs of Birkenhead, my thoughts suddenly flicked to the opening scenes of a book I had read as a child. Elidor is a magical adventure, set in the back streets of Manchester. I remember little of [...]

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Proactive Writer: Embrace Technology

A Proactive Writer is the kind of writer who is excited and stimulated by the possibility technology brings, rather than one that is intimidated by change. A Proactive Writer understands that technology is a tool and that when viewed as such is an essential part of their ‘process’.

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Would you sack your agent to self publish?

On The Destiny Of Species by Matthew Watkinson

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Proactive Writer: Building an online presence

The first step is to build a central point to which traffic is ultimately directed. My recommendation is to use an advanced blogging platform such a Wordpress. This will allow you to not only run a decent blog but also create static web pages to gives detail of you as a writer and also your work.

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