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Kindle Translate vs AI Translations for Authors: Which Should You Use?

Amazon just made book translation free. So why would anyone still pay for a course that teaches you how to translate a book with AI? That’s the question a lot of authors are asking right now, and it’s a fair one. Kindle Translate showed up as a beta...

Draft2Digital inks ebook distribution deal with Bookshop.org

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Draft2Digital has announced a new partnership with Bookshop.org that will make self-published ebooks available through Bookshop.org’s online stores in the US and UK. The agreement allows hundreds of thousands of indie titles distributed via Draft2Digital to be sold...

Creating Digital Boxsets for Self-Published Authors

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Stephenie Meyer, George R.R. Martin, Phillip Pullman, Suzanne Collins and J.K. Rowling. What do all these authors have in common? They have all written a series of books that can be sold as a boxset! Packaging a collection of multiple books together as a single...

Reviewing: How to Outline Commercial Fiction with the Story Engines Blueprint

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By Sian Toop In this episode, the Education Lead at Plottr, Troy Lambert, interviews bestselling fantasy author and story coach Joseph Nassise about Story Engines. Created by Nassise, Story Engines is ‘an intuitive four-act plot structure for writing commercial...

Reviewing Plotting for Pantsers: Outlining as You Go with Zoey Indiana

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In this episode of Plotting for Pantsers, Troy Lambert talks to self-published dark fantasy romance author Zoey Indiana about ‘discovery writing’ or ‘post plotting’, defined by Zoey as “letting my characters run around and drive me crazy for a couple of chapters and...